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Definition of Leanness
1. Noun. The quality of being meager. "An exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"
Generic synonyms: Deficiency, Inadequacy, Insufficiency
Specialized synonyms: Wateriness, Abstemiousness, Spareness, Sparseness, Sparsity, Thinness
Derivative terms: Exiguous, Lean, Lean, Lean, Meager, Meagre, Poor, Poor, Scanty, Scant
2. Noun. The property of having little body fat.
Generic synonyms: Bodily Property
Specialized synonyms: Scrawniness, Skinniness, Boniness, Bonyness, Emaciation, Gauntness, Maceration, Slenderness, Slightness, Slimness, Wiriness
Antonyms: Fatness
Derivative terms: Lean, Thin
Definition of Leanness
1. n. The condition or quality of being lean.
Definition of Leanness
1. Noun. The property of being lean, without excess or fat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leanness
1. the state of being lean [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leanness
Literary usage of Leanness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical dietetics by William Gilman Thompson (1905)
"DIET FOR leanness The foods which tend to produce fat in the body are chiefly sugars
... In seeking to remedy excessive leanness by dietetic treatment it is ..."
2. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1919)
"The measure of success is largely dependent on the cause of the leanness. ...
In a general way, the following suggestions for the relief of leanness may be ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... make leanness, want of appetite, want of sleep ordinary symptoms, and by that
means they are brought often so low, so much altered and changed, ..."
4. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"make leanness, want of appetite, want of sleep ordinary symptoms, and by that
means they are brought often so low, BO much altered and changed, ..."
5. How to be Plump: Or Talks on Physiological Feeding by Thomas Cation Duncan (1878)
"leanness a Disease, You ask " is leanness a disease, or disease tendency ?"
That is a very practical question, as we shall see: The term leanness implies a ..."
6. A Handbook of Gastronomy by Brillat-Savarin (1884)
"leanness is that condition when a person-s muscles are not filled up by fat, ...
Kinds of leanness. There are two kinds of leanness, the first, ..."
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