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Spareness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The state or quality of being spare.

n. The result or product of being spare.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state of being spare, lean, or thin; leanness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

n. the property of having little body fat

Word Usage

"I can see the shape of the wind on the water. [italics mine] Anyone who can write sentences like those italicised above, deceptively simple, or glancingly suggest that we're not so very different from those titmice, as well as set mood, scene, and theme with such spareness, is a seriously good writer."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

scantiness poorness scantness leanness meagreness

Cross Reference

thing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

leanness

Verb Stem

spare

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

triteness scantiness stoutness plumpness slenderness