thinness
The state or quality of being thin.
Noun
- The state or quality of being thin.
- The beautiful prismatic colours seen on the Labrodore stone are owing to a similar cause, viz. the thinness of the laminæ of which it consists […]. - 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 120:
- Beyond celebrating the aesthetic value of thinness, pro-anas claim that thinness is a reflection of excellence in other areas of one's life. - 2004 October 27, Eda R. Uca, Ana's Girls: The Essential Guide to the...
Origin
From Middle English thynnesse, from Old English þynnes (“thinness, slightness of density, lack of density, tenuity, fluidity, poverty, feebleness of sight, weakness”), equivalent to thin + -ness.