thinness

English

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.

Noun

thinness (usually uncountable, plural thinnesses)

1. The state or quality of being thin.
   • 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 120:

     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 […] .

   • 2004 October 27, Eda R. Uca, Ana's Girls: The Essential Guide to the Underground Eating Disorder Community Online, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 69:

     Beyond celebrating the aesthetic value of thinness, pro-anas claim that thinness is a reflection of excellence in other areas of one's life.

Antonyms

• thickness
• fatness (body weight)

Translations

the state of being thin

• Arabic: رِقَّة (riqqa)
• Dutch: dunheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: subtilaĵo, subtileco
• Finnish: ohuus (fi), laihuus (fi)
• French: finesse (fr) f
• German: Dünnheit f
• Greek:

  Ancient: λεπτότης f (leptótēs), ἰσχνότης f (iskhnótēs)

• Irish: caoile f
• Latin: macritūdō f, gracilitās f
• Old Czech: chvorost f
• Ottoman Turkish: ضعیفلق (zaʼiflık) (of body)
• Polish: chudość (pl) f
• Portuguese: fineza (pt) f (of an object), magreza (pt) f (of a person), delgadeza f (either)
• Russian: то́нкость (ru) f (tónkostʹ)
• Spanish: delgadez f (all contexts), flaqueza (es) f (of a person), flacura (es) f (of a person)
• Tausug: nipis