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Definition of Boniness
1. Noun. Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease).
Generic synonyms: Leanness, Spareness, Thinness
Derivative terms: Boney, Bony, Bony, Emaciate, Emaciate, Gaunt, Macerate
Definition of Boniness
1. n. The condition or quality of being bony.
Definition of Boniness
1. Noun. the property or degree of being bony ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boniness
1. the state of being bony [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boniness
Literary usage of Boniness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"And she kept on smiling absently at the work in her hands—long hands, thin now
to boniness, hardened and drawn, ..."
2. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"Biddy demanded, stopping short; and the cow—which seemed to have taken naturally
to her mistress from a general sense of boniness—or, as Michael Duffy ..."
3. Argumentation and Debating by William Trufant Foster (1917)
"... true way to get rid of the boniness is not by leaving out the skeleton, but
by clothing it with flesh." Various means of attaining an agreeable style ..."
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