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Webster 1913 Edition

Thinness

Thin′ness

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Noun.
The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).

Webster 1828 Edition

Thinness

THIN'NESS

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Noun.
The state of being thin; smallness of extent from one side or surface to the opposite; as the thinness of ice; the thinness of a plate; the thinness of the skin.
1.
Tenuity; rareness; as the thinness of air or other fluid.
2.
A state approaching to fluidity, or even fluidity; opposed to spissitude; as the thinness of honey, of white wash or of paint.
3.
Exility; as the thinness of a point.
4.
Rareness; a scattered state; paucity; as the thinness of trees in a forest; the thinness of inhabitants.

Definition 2024

thinness

thinness

English

Noun

thinness ‎(usually uncountable, plural thinnesses)

  1. The state or quality of being thin.

Translations

Etymology

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.

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