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SPARENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spareness mean? 

SPARENESS (noun)
  The noun SPARENESS has 2 senses:

1. the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking densenessplay

2. the property of having little body fatplay

  Familiarity information: SPARENESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPARENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

spareness; sparseness; sparsity; thinness

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

exiguity; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; poorness; scantiness; scantness (the quality of being meager)

Derivation:

spare (lacking in magnitude or quantity)

spare (thin and fit)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of having little body fat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

leanness; spareness; thinness

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

bodily property (an attribute of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spareness"):

scrawniness; skinniness (the bodily property of lacking flesh)

boniness; bonyness; emaciation; gauntness; maceration (extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease))

slenderness; slightness; slimness (the property of an attractively thin person)

wiriness (the property of being lean and tough and sinewy)


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