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BONYNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bonyness mean?
• BONYNESS (noun)
The noun BONYNESS has 1 sense:
1. extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
Familiarity information: BONYNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("bonyness" is a kind of...):
leanness; spareness; thinness (the property of having little body fat)
Derivation:
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