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Definition: Thinness |
ThinnessNoun1. 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 having little body fat. 3. The property of being very narrow or thin; "he marvelled at the fineness of her hair". 4. A consistency of low viscosity; "he disliked the thinness of the soup". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thinness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A state of insufficient flesh on the body usually defined as having a body weight less than skeletal and physical standards. (references) |
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Synonyms: ThinnessSynonyms: fineness (n), leanness (n), slenderness (n), tenuity (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: fatness (n), thickness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Littleness | Noun: littleness; Adjective: smallness; exiguity, inextension; parvitude, parvity; duodecimo; Elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm; rudiment; vanishing point; thinness. |
Narrowness Thinness | Thinness; Adjective: tenuity; emaciation, macilency, marcor. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Thinness |
| English words defined with "thinness": Exility ♦ Glass-crab, gold leaf ♦ keenness ♦ scraggy, scrawny, sharpness, skinny, slenderness, Subtilty ♦ tenuity ♦ underweight ♦ weedy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thinness": Deal-fish. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | What had been thinness in her youth had become in maturity transparency, and this etherialness permitted gleams of the angel within |
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| "Thinness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thinness" is used about 69 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% | 69 | 40,280 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "thinness": thinness-conscious. | |
Ending with "thinness": paper-thinness, tall-thinness. | |
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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 |
thinness | 5 |
hollywood thinness | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "thinness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | غثاثة (leanness), الرقة (fragility), ركاكة (weakness), رهافة (delicacy, fineness, flimsiness, sleeplessness, slimness, tenuousness), رقة (airiness, benignity, daintiness, delicacy, fineness, finesse, flimsiness, forgiveness, geniality, gentleness, graciousness, loveliness, neatness, polish, refinement, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sleeplessness, softness, suavity, subtlety, tenderling, tenderness, tenuity, tenuousness), رشاقة (agility, alacrity, deftness, fluency, fluidity, gracefulness, graciousness, lightness, liveliness, nimbleness, quickness, readiness, sleight of hand, swiftness). (various references) | |
Czech | tenkost (tenuity), ubohost, slabost (debility, faintness, feebleness, frailty, impotence, infirmity, invalidity, qualm, weak spot, weakness), lehkost (ease, facility, lightness), hubenost (jejunum, leanness), řídkost (rareness, rarity, sparsity). (various references) | |
Finnish | ohuus (rarity), laihuus (leanness), hoikkuus (slenderness, slimness), hienous (delicacy, elegance, fineness), harvuus (scarcity). (various references) | |
French | minceur, maigreur, légèreté (thoughtlessness), finesse. (various references) | |
German | Dünnheit (fineness, gauntness, sparseness, tenuity, tenuousness, wateriness, weakness). (various references) | |
Greek | λιγνάδα (slenderness), λεπτότησ (comity, delicacy, fineness, gauziness, niceness, nicety, polish, refinement, sleaziness, slenderness, slimness, subtlety, tact, tactfulness, tenuity, tenuousness, ticklishness, waspishness), λεπτότητα (comity, consideration, daintiness, delicacy, fineness, flimsiness, gauziness, niceness, nicety, polish, refinement, sleaziness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, subtlety, tact, tactfulness, tenuity, tenuousness, ticklishness, waspishness), αραιότησ (rareness, rarity, sparseness, tenuity, tenuousness), αραιότητα (rareness, rarity, sparseness, tenuity, tenuousness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קלישות (flimsiness, slack, superficiality, tenuouseness), כחיש" (leanness), "לילות (dilution, sparseness, sparsity), "קות (delicacy, fineness, flimsiness, niceness, nicety, subtlety, tenuity), רזון (emaciation, leanness, slimness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vékonyság (exility, tenuity, tenuousness), hígság (tenuity, tenuousness, wateriness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kekerempengan, kecekingan. (various references) | |
Italian | sottigliezza (fineness, quibble, refinement, slenderness, sophistication), magrezza (leanness), leggerezza (fickleness, imprudence, levity, lightness, nimbleness), finezza (acuteness, fineness, finesse, nicety), debolezza (debility, enervation, failing, faintness, feebleness, infirmity, poorness, weakness). (various references) | |
Manx | keylid (fineness, narrowness, slenderness, slightness, waist, waist of instrument, weakness, weakness of mixture), feiosid (flimsiness, fragility, frailty, litheness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | innessthay.(various references) | |
Romanian | subţirime (slimness, tenuity), delicateţe (daintiness, dainty, delicacy, fineness, gentleness, nicety, refinement, softness, tactfulness, tenderness). (various references) | |
Russian | тонкость (exility, fine point, fineness, finesse, shrewdness, subtleness, subtlety, twists and turns). (various references) | |
Scottish | tainead. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tankost, mršavost (leanness, tabescence). (various references) | |
Spanish | raleza, ligereza (agility, airiness, briskness, flippancy, levity, lightness, swiftness), flaqueza (failing, frailty, infirmity), flacura (gauntness, leanness, skinniness), delgadez (acuteness, flimsiness, scragginess, sleaziness, slenderness, slimness). (various references) | |
Swedish | tunnhet (fragility, rarefaction, tenuity), tanighet. (various references) | |
Turkish | zayıflık (caducity, debility, delicacy, diathesis, failing, faintness, feebleness, flabbiness, frailness, frailty, impotence, impotency, lameness, leanness, puniness, slimness, spareness, weakness), seyreklik (infrequency, rareness, rarity, sparseness, sparsity), incelik (civility, courtesy, daintiness, delicacy, discretion, elaborateness, fineness, finesse, fragility, grace, gracefulness, keenness, niceness, nicety, point, polish, politeness, refinement, slenderness, slightness, slimness, subtility, subtlety, tact, touch), hafiflik (airiness, frailness, giddiness, lightness, looseness, slightness, slowness). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яukalyk. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính nghèo n n, tính chất thưa thớt (sparseness), tính chất phân tán tính mong manh, tính chất mỏng. (various references) | |
Welsh | teneuwch (leanness, tenuity). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ieiunium, raritas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "thinness": thinnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Thinness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hinness, thannes, thennes, thikness, thines, thinkness, tininess, Tinneas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thinness" (pronounced thi"nnus or thi"nus) |
| 4 | -n n u s | cleanness, drunkenness, evenness, greenness, humanness, meanness, oneness, openness, sternness, stubbornness, suddenness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greatness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, onus, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, quietness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, strangeness, sturdiness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, quietness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-n-n-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: sennits, sithens. | |
-2 letters: heists, insets, ninths, sennit, shiest, shines, steins, tennis, theins, thesis. | |
-3 letters: heist, hents, hests, hints, hists, inset, neist, nests, nines, ninth, nites, senti, shent, shies, shine, shins, shist, sines, sinhs, sites, snits, stein, sties, thein, thens, thine, thins, tines. | |
-4 letters: eths, hens, hent, hest, hets, hies, hins, hint, hisn, hiss, hist. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-n-n-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: sennights, thingness. | |
+2 letters: nontheists, thinnesses, thorniness, whinstones. | |
+3 letters: banishments, disenchants, internships, lengthiness, naughtiness, nothingness, punishments, rhinestones, shortenings, strychnines, thingnesses. | |
+4 letters: astonishment, christenings, faintishness, garnishments, hypotensions, inchoateness, knightliness, nourishments, soothingness, synthesizing, thinkingness, thorninesses, unworthiness. | |
+5 letters: admonishments, astonishments, benightedness, blandishments, diminishments, disenchanters, downrightness, enshrinements, ethnosciences, hypertensions, kittenishness, languishments, lengthinesses, naughtinesses, neurasthenias, neurasthenics, nothingnesses, pennywhistles, thinkableness, transshipment, unearthliness, unhealthiness, unsightliness, withdrawnness. | |
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