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thinness|ˈθɪnnɪs|
[f. thin a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being thin.
1. a. Narrowness of dimension between opposite surfaces; absence of thickness or depth.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 80 b, Fulnesse and emptinesse, or thicknesse and thinnes. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 175 Cotton cloth..for thinnesse not vnlike our boulting cloths. 1715Desaguliers Fires Impr. 113 Where you cannot dig in the Back-Wall of a Chimney by reason of its thinness. 1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 54 The thinness of the seam [of coal]. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man iii. 34 The extreme thinness of the film of matter.
b. Lean or spare habit of body; spareness.
1827–35Willis Leper 65 There, alone, Wasted to ghastly thinness, Helon knelt. 1932G. Greene Stamboul Train i. i. 5 Her mackintosh showed the thinness of her body.
c. fig. Deficiency, poverty, meagreness, feebleness; lack of depth or fullness.
c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 134 Hit ᵹehælð þa þynnysse þære ᵹesihðe. 1623W. Balcanqual Serm. St. Maries Spittle 98 The thinnesse of our Ioy, because we did sowe our teares too thin. 1903Daily Chron. 20 Feb. 3/6 That there was much ‘intellectual thinness’ among young men.
2. The condition of being thinly arranged, occupied, or attended; want of fullness; sparseness.
c1440Promp. Parv. 491/1 Thynnesse, of wodys, cornys, and oþer lyke, raritas. 1573–80Baret Alv. T. 166 Thinnesse: seldomnesse, rarité. 1690Locke Govt. ii. vi. §74 The Thinness of People gives Families Leave to separate into unpossessed Quarters. 1774A. Gib Pres. Truth II. 40 None of these brethren opened a mouth about the thinness of the meeting. 1826F. Reynolds Life & Times II. 200 Expressing my surprise at the..thinness of the house.
3. Absence or lack of density, consistence, or viscosity; fluidity, tenuity, rarity.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 199 Þonne þara metta meltung biþ & þynnes. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xi. i. (Tollem. MS.), Eyer haþ more þinnesse and clerenesse þan oþer elementis. c1440Promp. Parv. 491/1 Thynnesse, or thynhede of licurys. 1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 37 From earthly thicknesse, too thinnesse vannished ayerie. 1684–5Boyle Min. Waters 26 Of the thinness or viscosity of the Mineral Water. a1854C. A. Southey Poet. Wks. (1867) 67 Milk..tempered down To wholesome thinness. |
