Definition of Skinniness

1. Noun. The bodily property of lacking flesh.

Exact synonyms: Scrawniness
Generic synonyms: Leanness, Spareness, Thinness
Derivative terms: Scrawny, Skinny

Definition of Skinniness

1. n. Quality of being skinny.

Definition of Skinniness

1. Noun. The property of being skinny. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Skinniness

1. [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Skinniness

1. Quality of being skinny. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skinniness

skinless
skinlessness
skinlike
skinmags
skinnable
skinned
skinner
skinnerian conditioning
skinnerite
skinners
skinnier
skinnies
skinniest
skinnily
skinniness (current term)
skinninesses
skinning
skinning back
skinny
skinny-dip
skinny-dipper
skinny-dippers
skinny-dipping
skinny as a rail
skinny dip
skinny dipping
skinny mirror
skinnydip
skinnydipping

Literary usage of Skinniness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"The roundness of his back had, somehow, entirely disappeared, as well as the skinniness of his chest and shoulders. Л fair proportion of flesh now covered ..."

2. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"... softening except as a part of general skinniness of the bill. (b.) The covering is cither entire or pieced. In most birds it is entire; that is, ..."

3. Tales of My Native Town by Gabriele D'Annunzio (1920)
"This costume accentuated the prominence of his stomach and the skinniness of his legs. His locks, shining with cosmetic oils, resembled an artificial fringe ..."

4. The Chautauquan by Chautauqua Institution (1909)
"... these lads "show no inert pasty masses of flesh, no cadaverous skinniness, they are not shade-blighted women; they do not quiver and run with sweat at ..."

5. Old and New by Edward Everett Hale (1873)
"... of youthful roundness which she had possessed, had even now begun what must, with her, be a long and unbroken declension through degrees of skinniness. ..."

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