Slenderness

Definition: Slenderness

Slenderness

Noun

1. Relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width: "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope".

2. The property of an attractively thin person.

Date "slenderness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)

Synonyms: Slenderness

Synonyms: slightness (n), slimness (n), tenuity (n), thinness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: thickness (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Slenderness

English words defined with "slenderness": Exility. (references)

Specialty definitions using "slenderness": slender body, slenderness ratio. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Not without reason was its slenderness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Slenderness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Slenderness" is used about 16 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%	16	87,710

Language		Translations for "slenderness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏النحول. (various references)

Czech		štíhlost. (various references)

Finnish		solakkuus (slimness), hoikkuus (slimness, thinness), hentous (delicacy, tenderness). (various references)

French		sveltesse (slimness), minceur (slimness), finesse, faiblesse. (various references)

German		Schlankheit (lankiness, neatness, skinniness, sliminess, slimness, thinness). (various references)

Greek		ισχνότησ (emaciation, gauntness, haggardness, leanness, meagreness, scragginess, scrawniness, skinniness), ισχνότητα (boniness, emaciation, gauntness, haggardness, leanness, meagreness, scragginess, scrawniness, skinniness), λεπτότησ (comity, delicacy, fineness, gauziness, niceness, nicety, polish, refinement, sleaziness, slimness, subtlety, tact, tactfulness, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness, ticklishness, waspishness), λεπτότητα (comity, consideration, daintiness, delicacy, fineness, flimsiness, gauziness, niceness, nicety, polish, refinement, sleaziness, slightness, slimness, subtlety, tact, tactfulness, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness, ticklishness, waspishness). (various references)

Hebrew		תמירות (erectness, uprightness). (various references)

Hungarian		karcsúság (slimness). (various references)

Italian		sottigliezza (fineness, quibble, refinement, sophistication, thinness), snellezza, scarsit� (dearth, lack, poorness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage), esilit� (gracility, slimness). (various references)

Manx		shangid (emaciation, lankiness, leanness, slightness, slimness), keylid (fineness, narrowness, slightness, thinness, waist, waist of instrument, weakness, weakness of mixture), genney (dearth, destitution, paucity, scarceness, shortness). (various references)

Pig Latin		endernessslay

Russian		стройность (harmony, shapeliness, slimness). (various references)

Scottish		caoile (leanness, narrowness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vitkost (slimness). (various references)

Spanish		lo remoto, esbeltez (chic, neatness), delgadez (acuteness, flimsiness, scragginess, sleaziness, slimness, thinness). (various references)

Turkish		yetersizlik (deficiency, disability, disablement, flimsiness, handicap, inability, inadequacy, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, inefficacy, insufficiency, littleness, paucity, poorness, poverty, scantiness, scantness, slimness, spareness), narinlik (fragility, frailness, frailty, slightness, slimness, tenderness), kuvvetsizlik (atony, feebleness, lack of power, slightness, weakness), kısıtlı olma, incelik (civility, courtesy, daintiness, delicacy, discretion, elaborateness, fineness, finesse, fragility, grace, gracefulness, keenness, niceness, nicety, point, polish, politeness, refinement, slightness, slimness, subtility, subtlety, tact, thinness, touch), anca yetme. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự thon nhỏ sự ít ỏi, sự nghèo n� n sự mỏng manh sự yếu ớt, vóc mảnh khảnh, tầm người mảnh dẻ. (various references)

Welsh		meinder (fineness), eiddilwch (feebleness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	subtilitate. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "slenderness": slendernesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Slenderness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Senderens. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-l-n-n-r-s-s-s"
	-2 letters: denseness, eldresses, rednesses.
	-3 letters: lessened, needlers, needless, seedless.
	-4 letters: dresses, eldress, endless, lenders, lessees, lessens, needers, needler, needles, redness, relends, reseeds, resends, seeders, seeress, senders, serenes, slender, sneered.
	-5 letters: denser, elders, enders, leered, lender, lensed, lenses, lessee, lessen, lesser, needer, needle, nesses, reeled, relend, reseed, reseen, resees, resend, seders, seeder, seeled, sender, sensed, senses.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-l-n-n-r-s-s-s"
	+2 letters: learnednesses, slendernesses.
	+3 letters: friendlessness, friendlinesses.
	+4 letters: undesirableness, wonderfulnesses.
	+5 letters: fraudulentnesses, friendlessnesses, groundlessnesses, incrediblenesses, pardonablenesses, slanderousnesses, unfriendlinesses.
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