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slenderness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | slightness, slimness |
| Type of | leanness, spareness, thinness |
| Derivation | slender |
slenderness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency |
| Derivation | slender |
he knew the slenderness of my wallet.
the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done.
the slenderness of the evidence.
Examples of slenderness
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Slenderness was promoted to some extent before 1920, especially in fashion advice.
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Because of their slenderness, some narrowboats seem very long.
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Sony's finally ditching the loopy design of its previous tablets and is focusing on slenderness instead.
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I was told that Peyton had barely two weeks to transform the place, which might account for the slenderness of the menu.
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Other women aim to dress like them, to emulate their easy athleticism and their more problematic slenderness.
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Plain, muted suits and ties enhance his slenderness.
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Their slenderness makes them better for grouping but because they are long, the centre of gravity is further back.
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We think of its slenderness and upright, relatively minimal elegance as opposed to the blousiness of a Victorian garden rose.
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The fineness of the bones beneath her skin, the slenderness of her waist, send a shiver of excitement from his stomach to his groin.
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- The quality of being slight or inadequate; "he knew the slenderness of my wallet"; "the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done"; "the slenderness of the evidence"
- Thinness: relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope"
- The property of an attractively thin person
- (slenderly) in a slim or slender manner; "a slenderly built woman"; "slightly built"
- (slenderly) meagerly: to a meager degree or in a meager manner; "these voices are meagerly represented at the conference"; "the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources"
- In engineering, buckling is a failure mode characterized by a sudden failure of a structural member subjected to high compressive stresses, where the actual compressive stress at the point of failure is less than the ultimate compressive stresses that the material is capable of withstanding. ...
- (Slenderly) In mathematics, a slender group is a torsion-free abelian group that is "small" in a sense that is made precise in the definition below.
