thinness

Quality of gauntness

Thinness is the quality of being thin—narrow, slight, or lacking thickness.

It can describe physical dimensions: the thinness of paper, of ice, of a slice of bread.

It extends to density or concentration: the thinness of mountain air, of a crowd, of hair.

Applied to abstractions, thinness suggests insufficiency: the thinness of an argument, of evidence, of a plot.

The thinness of the walls meant we could hear everything.

scarcity

sparseness

Lack of density

inadequacy · insufficiency · leanness · bareness · skimpiness · shortage · want · lack · dearth · deficiency

delicacy

gossamer

Filmy, delicate material

feathery · diaphanous · gauzy · filmy · papery · cobwebby · ethereal · fine-spun · threadlike · membrane

physique

slim

Thin or meager

svelte · willowy · lanky · gaunt · lithe · petite · wiry · rangy · bony · angular

weakness

frailty

Weakness of body

wasting · atrophy · malnutrition · anemia · enervation · infirmity · vulnerability · brittleness · delicateness · insubstantiality

narrowness

tapered

Gradually narrowing in width

attenuated · hairline · knife-edge · needle-like · sliver · pinched · compressed · constricted · trim · sleek

density

watery

Containing excess liquid

  • dilutedMade weaker by adding liquid
  • runnyExcessively fluid
  • weakLacking power or force

sparse · light · fine · rarefied · see-through · brothy · insubstantial

dieting

calories

Measures of food energy

portion · restriction · keto · detox · cleanse · counting · deficit · measurement · scale · before-and-after

Categories
Opposites
physical dimension/width

thinnessthickness

Depth of material

width · broadness · bulkiness · girth · massiveness

body composition/weight

thinnessfatness

Excess body bulk

obesity · corpulence · heaviness · stoutness · plumpness

density/substance

thinnessthickness

Depth of material

density · solidity · richness · heaviness · viscosity

Phrases
Family

thinned, thinner, thinnest, thinners, unthinned

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