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BONINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boniness mean? 

BONINESS (noun)
  The noun BONINESS has 1 sense:

1. extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)play

  Familiarity information: BONINESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BONINESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

boniness; bonyness; emaciation; gauntness; maceration

Hypernyms ("boniness" is a kind of...):

leanness; spareness; thinness (the property of having little body fat)

Derivation:

boney; bony (being very thin)


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