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Definition: Leanness |
LeannessNoun1. The property of having little body fat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "leanness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: LeannessSynonym: thinness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: fatness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Leanness |
| English words defined with "leanness": bonyness ♦ emaciation ♦ gauntness ♦ maceration, Macilency. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "leanness": Fat free lean index. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "leanness": Macilent. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Gene predicts lamb leanness. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by ARS.. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Elizabeth Gaskell | He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A figure was crouching before the large grate and by its leanness and greyness he knew that it was the dean of studies lighting the fire. |
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| "Leanness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Leanness" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "leanness". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Meroz | N/A | Biblical | Leanness |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
leanness lifestyle | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "leanness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pakësim (abatement, attenuation, cut, decrease, decrement, deflation, degression, detraction, diminution, fall, lessening, letup, modification, reduction, retrenchment, shortening, taper, wane), dobësi (adynamia, anaemia, anemia, debility, delicacy, disease, failing, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, fragility, frailty, goneness, impotence, impotency, inanimation, inanition, inanity, infirmity, labefaction, languish, languor, laxness, limpness, malady, marasmus, reaction, sinking, tabescence, tenuity, vulnerability, washiness, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هزال (attenuation, slimness), نحول (emaciation, scantiness), غثاثة (thinness), عجف, ضمور (atrophy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сухост (aridity, dryness), слабост (asthenia, crack, debility, demerit, failing, fancy, feebleness, flabbiness, frailness, frailty, impotence, impotency, inanition, infirmity, insufficiency, partiality, poorness, shortcoming, tenderness, tenuity, weakness), мършавост (emaciation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 瘦 (lank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hubenost (jejunum, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | laihuus (thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | objectif de l'au-plus-juste, maigreur, "légèreté" minimale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | magerkeit (emaciation, low fat level, meagerness, poorness, scragginess, skinniness, sliminess, spareness, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ισχνότησ (emaciation, gauntness, haggardness, meagreness, scragginess, scrawniness, skinniness, slenderness), ισχνότητα (boniness, emaciation, gauntness, haggardness, meagreness, scragginess, scrawniness, skinniness, slenderness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כחישות (emaciation, gauntness), כחיש" (thinness), "לות (indigence, meanness, poorness, poverty), רזון (emaciation, slimness, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | soványság (boniness, emaciation, scragginess). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | magrezza (thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | trooys, thannid (attenuation, liquidity, rareness, scragginess, shallowness, spareness, tenuity, thinness; two year old sheep, weediness), shangys, shangid (emaciation, lankiness, slenderness, slightness, slimness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eannesslay slãbiciune (debility, decrepitude, defect, droop, failing, faintness, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, infirmity, languor, liking, propensity, shortcoming, tenuity, weakness). (various references) худоба (scragginess, skinniness). (various references) caoile (narrowness, slenderness). (various references) mršavost (tabescence, thinness), šturost. (various references) magrez, flacura (gauntness, skinniness, thinness). (various references) zayıflık (caducity, debility, delicacy, diathesis, failing, faintness, feebleness, flabbiness, frailness, frailty, impotence, impotency, lameness, puniness, slimness, spareness, thinness, weakness), verimsizlik (inefficiency, infertility, poorness, sterility, unproductiveness). (various references) убогість (baldness, bareness, poverty, scantiness), худорба (emaciation, exility, scragginess). (various references) teneuwch (tenuity, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ieiunia, ieiunii, ieiuniis, ieiunio, ieiunium, macie. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 16, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai epelabou mou eiV marturion egenhqh kai anesth en emoi to yeudoV mou kata proswpon mou antapekriqh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Nunc autem oppressit me dolor meus et in nihili redacti sunt omnes artus mei |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Riytwis men shul stoneyen vp on that; and the innocent ayen the ipocrite shal be stirid vp. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face. |
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| Language | Job Chapter 16, Verse 8 |
| Albanian | më ke mbuluar me rrudha dhe kjo dëshmon kundër meje, dobësia ime ngrihet dhe dëshmon kundër meje. |
| Bulgarian | Набръчкал си ме в свидетелство против мене; И мършавостта ми се издига срещу мене И заявява в лицето ми. |
| Cebuano | Ug gigunitan mo ako, nga maoy usa ka pagpamatuod batok kanako: Ug ang akong kaniwang nagapasundayag batok kanako, Kini nagapamatuod sa akong atubangan. |
| Chinese | 又 " 住 我 、 作 見 證 " " 我 ． 我 身 " 的 枯 瘦 也 當 面 見 證 我 的 不 是 。 |
| Croatian | Ustao je proti meni da svjedoèi i u lice mi se baca klevetama. |
| Danish | at du greb mig, gælder som Vidnesbyrd mod mig, min Magerhed vidner imod mig. |
| Dutch | Dat Gij mij rimpelachtig gemaakt hebt, is tot een getuige; en mijn magerheid staat tegen mij op, zij getuigt in mijn aangezicht. |
| Finnish | ja olet minut kukistanut - siitä muka tuli todistaja - ja raihnauteni nousi minua vastaan, syyttäen minua vasten silmiä. |
| French | Tu m`as saisi, pour témoigner contre moi; Ma maigreur se lève, et m`accuse en face. |
| German | Er hat mich runzlig gemacht, das zeugt wider mich; und mein Elend steht gegen mich auf und verklagt mich ins Angesicht. |
| Haitian Creole | Ou mete men sou mwen, ou pa vle wè m' ankò. Mwen tounen zo ak po. Yo di se paske mwen antò ki fè sa rive m'. |
| Hungarian | Hogy összenyomtál engem, ez bizonyság lett; felkelt ellenem az én ösztövérségem is, szemtõl-szembe bizonyít ellenem. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dia menentang dan menangkap aku. Sekarang kurus keringlah tubuhku, dan bagi banyak orang itulah buktinya bahwa aku telah berdosa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Adapun Engkau sudah menjadikan aku berkerut-kerut, maka ia itu menjadi saksi, dan kuruskupun naik saksi atasku dan memberi jawab di hadapan mukaku. |
| Italian | si è costituito testimone ed è insorto contro di me: il mio calunniatore mi accusa in faccia. |
| Korean | 주 께 서 나 를 시 " 게 하 셨 으 니 이 " 나 를 향 하 여 증 거 를 삼 으 심 이 라 나 의 파 리 한 모 양 이 일 어 나 서 대 면 하 여 나 의 죄 를 증 거 하 나 이 다 |
| Maori | Na kua mau kita koe ki ahau, hei kaiwhakaatu i toku he: e whakatika ana mai hoki toku hirokitanga ki ahau, hei whakapuaki i toku he: e whakatika ana mai hoki toku hirokitanga ki ahau hei whakapuaki i toku he. |
| Modern Greek | Και αι ρυτιδες με τας οποιας με εσημειωσας, ειναι μαρτυρια· και η ισχνοτης μου ανισταμενη εις εμε, μαρτυρει επι του προσωπου μου. |
| Norwegian | Og du grep mig fatt - det blev et vidne mot mig; min magerhet stod op imot mig, like i mitt åsyn vidnet den mot mig. |
| Portuguese | Tu me emagreceste, e isso constitui uma testemunha contra mim; contra mim se levanta a minha magreza, e o meu rosto testifica contra mim. |
| Rumanian | M`ai apucat, ca pe un vinovat; dovadq slqbiciunea mea, care se ridicq wi mq knvinuie kn fayq. |
| Russian | фЩ ПЛТЩМ НЕОС НПТЭЙОБНЙ ЧП УЧЙ"ЕФЕМШУФЧП ТПФЙЧ НЕОС; ЧПУУФБЕФ ОБ НЕОС ЙЪНПЦ"ЕООПУФШ НПС, Ч МЙ"П ХЛПТСЕФ НЕОС. |
| Spanish | y me ha llenado de arrugas. Mi debilidad responde en mi propia cara; ha venido a ser testigo y se ha levantado contra mí. |
| Swedish | Och att du har hemsökt mig, det gäller såsom vittnesbörd; min sjukdom får träda upp och tala mot mig. |
| Thai | และพระองค์ไ"้ให้ข้าเต็มไป"้วยรอยย่นซึ่งส าพนี้เป็นพยานปรักปรำข้า และความผ่ายผอมของข้าลุกขึ้นปรักปรำข้า มันเป็นพยานใส่หน้าข้า |
| Ukrainian | і поморщив мене, і це стало за свідчення, і змарнілість моя проти мене повстала, і очевидьки мені докоря"! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "leanness": leannesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "leanness": cleanness, uncleanness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "leanness": cleannesses, uncleannesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "leanness" (pronounced 'Lean"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness, Chasteness, Cheapness, Childness, Chillness, Choiceness, Chopness, Circumspectness, Cleanness, Clearness, Closeness, Coarseness, Coldness, Compactness, Completeness, Conciseness, Concreteness, Condignness, Conjointness, Coolness, Correctness, Corruptness, Coyness, Crankness, Crassness, Crispness, Crossness, Crudeness, Curstness, Curtness, Cuteness, Daftness, Dampness, Darkness, Deadness, Deafness, Dearness, Debauchness, Debonairness, Deepness, Deftness, Demureness, Devoutness, Diffuseness, Diluteness, Dimness, Directness, Direness, Dirkness, Diskindness, Dislikeness, Disperseness, Distinctness, Diverseness, Divineness, Dryness, Dueness, Dulceness, Dullness, Dumbness, Duskness, Erectness, Exactness, Expertness, Expressness, Faintness, Fairness, Falness, Falseness, Farness, Fastness, Fatness, Featness, Fellness, Ferdness, fewness, fineness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fleetness, Flushness, fondness, forgiveness, forlornness, Forswornness, foulness, frailness, frankness, Freeness, freshness, fullness, gameness, Gastness, gayness, genteelness, Ghastness, Gladness, Glibness, Glumness, Goneness, Goodness, grandness, graveness, grayness, greatness, greenness, grimness, grossness, grotesqueness, Halfness, hardness, harshness, Highness, hirsuteness, hoarseness, hotness, illness, immatureness, immenseness, impureness, incompleteness, incorrectness, incorruptness, indirectness, indistinctness, ineptness, inertness, inexactness, Inexpertness, Infirmness, insaneness, insecureness, Intenseness, intentness, justness, keenness, KINDNESS, lameness, Lankness, largeness, lateness, laxness, likeness, limpness, litheness, Loathness, Loneness, longness, looseness, loudness, loving-kindness, lowness, madness, matureness, meanness, meekness, Meetness, mildness, minuteness, moistness, Moreness, moroseness, Muchness, Muteness, Nearness, neatness, Newness, Niceness, Nighness, Northness, Numbness, Obeseness, Oblateness, Obliqueness, Obscureness, Obtuseness, Occultness, Oddness, Oldness, Oneness, Opaqueness, Ornateness, Oughtness, Outness, Overfullness, Overgreatness, Overlargeness, Overmuchness, Overthwartness, Paleness, Patness, Pertness, Perverseness, Piedness, Pinkness, Plainness, Platness, Plumpness, Politeness, Poorness, Primeness, Primness, Profaneness, Profoundness, Profuseness, Prolixness, Promptness, Proneness, Proudness, Pureness, Quaintness, Quakness, Queerness, Quickness, rankness, rareness, rashness, Rawness, Recluseness, redness, remissness, Repleteness, richness, rightness, ripeness, robustness, Rotundness, roughness, roundness, sadness, safeness, Sageness, Salineness, Saltness, sameness, saneness, scantness, Scrimpness, secureness, Seedness, Selectness, Selfness, Self-willedness, Sereneness, Setness, sharpness, shortness, shrillness, shyness, sickness, Silkness, Sincereness, slackness, sleekness, slickness, slightness, slimness, Sliness, Slopeness, slowness, slyness, smallness, smartness, smoothness, smugness, snugness, softness, Soleness, Soothness, soreness, soundness, sourness, Southness, spareness, sparseness, squareness, staidness, staleness, Stanchness, Starchness, starkness, Stayedness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stoutness, Straitness, strangeness, strictness, Stuntness, Sublimeness, Submissness, sureness, Swartness, sweetness, swiftness, tallness, tameness, tartness, thickness, thinness, Thwartness, tightness, tiredness, toughness, Trigness, trimness, trueness, Truthness, Underniceness, Undueness, Unfirmness, unharness, unlikeness, Unripeness, Unsadness, Unwellness, vagueness, Vainness, Vastness, Voidness, Wanness, Warmness, Wasteness, Weakness, Weirdness, Westness, Whereness, Whiteness, Wholeness, Wideness, Wildness, Wiseness, Woodness, Wrawness, Wrongness, Wryness, Youngness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-n-n-s-s" | |
-2 letters: aneles, easels, leases, lenses, lessen, sennas. | |
-3 letters: anele, easel, eases, elans, lanes, lases, leans, lease, lenes, lense, nenes, sales, sanes, seals, seels, senna, sensa, sense. | |
-4 letters: alee, ales, anes, ease, eels, elan, else, eses, lane, lase, lass, lean, leas, lees, lens, less, nans, nene, ness, sale, sals, sane, sans, seal, seas, seel, seen, sees, sels, sene. | |
-5 letters: ale, als, ane, ass, eel, els, ens, ess, las, lea, lee, nae, nan, nee, sae, sal, sea, see, sel, sen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-n-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: alienness, aloneness, cleanness. | |
+2 letters: lanknesses, leadenness, leannesses, mannerless, tenantless, venialness. | |
+3 letters: aliennesses, alonenesses, blandnesses, blanknesses, cleanliness, cleannesses, eternalness, inessential, insensately, lankinesses, learnedness, manlinesses, meaningless, neutralness, notableness, plainnesses, screenlands, tenableness, tunableness, uncleanness, unessential. | |
+4 letters: damnableness, disentangles, enslavements, enviableness, heavenliness, inessentials, internalises, landlessness, leadennesses, maidenliness, manfulnesses, mannerliness, namelessness, nonessential, nonreusables, painlessness, palingeneses, palingenesis, planlessness, pleasantness, pleasingness, pliantnesses, slanginesses, tangibleness, unseasonable, unstableness, venialnesses. | |
+5 letters: brainlessness, changefulness, cleanlinesses, containerless, convalescents, darlingnesses, dauntlessness, endonucleases, enjoyableness, essentialness, eternalnesses, finicalnesses, gainfulnesses, glaringnesses, honorableness, identicalness, incalescences, incapableness, indispensable, ineffableness, initialnesses, inviolateness, isoprenalines, languidnesses, lastingnesses, learnednesses, meaninglessly, melanogeneses, melanogenesis, naturalnesses, neutralnesses, nonessentials, notablenesses, painfulnesses, painterliness, plaintiveness, saintlinesses, sensorineural, tenablenesses, thanklessness, thinkableness, translucences, tunablenesses, uncleanliness, uncleannesses, underclassmen, unearthliness, unhealthiness, universalness, unmanlinesses, unnecessarily, unusualnesses, valiantnesses, venerableness, womanlinesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 61 6E 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . .- -. -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01100001 01101110 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e a n n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0061 006E 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4671678080718585 |
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