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SKINNINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does skinniness mean?
• SKINNINESS (noun)
The noun SKINNINESS has 1 sense:
1. the bodily property of lacking flesh
Familiarity information: SKINNINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The bodily property of lacking flesh
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
scrawniness; skinniness
Hypernyms ("skinniness" is a kind of...):
leanness; spareness; thinness (the property of having little body fat)
Derivation:
skinny (being very thin)
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