GAUNTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gauntness mean? 

• GAUNTNESS (noun)
  The noun GAUNTNESS has 1 sense:

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAUNTNESS (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 ("gauntness" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

gaunt (very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold)