thinness

English

noun
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  • The state or quality of being thin.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English thynnesse inherited from Old English þynnes (poverty, lack of density, fluidity, feebleness of sight, thinness, tenuity, weakness, slightness of density) suffix from English thin.

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thin

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