Antonyms for thinness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : thin |
| Phonetic Transcription : θɪn |
Definition of thinness
Origin :- Old English þynne "narrow, lean, scanty," from Proto-Germanic *thunnuz, *thunw- (cf. West Frisian ten, Middle Low German dunne, Dutch dun, Old High German dunni, German dünn, Old Norse þunnr), from PIE *tnus-, *tnwi-, from weak grade of root *ten- "stretch" (cf. Latin tenuis "thin, slender;" see tenet).
- These our actors ... were all Spirits, and Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre. [Shakespeare, "The Tempest," IV.i.150, 1610]
- Thin-skinned is attested from 1590s; the figurative sense of "touchy" is from 1670s.
- noun slimness
- noun slenderness
- They had always jeered at me for my thinness, and in this dress I looked like an English tea-pot.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- He hurried on lest she should call satiric attention to its thinness.
- Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
- This man was evil, not with the grossness of a debauchee but with the thinness of the devotee.
- Extract from : « Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer » by Cyrus Townsend Brady
- As I buttoned it at her throat I marvelled at the thinness of her, and at the delicacy of her face.
- Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
- Where else is there anything like it, for sincerity and for thinness?
- Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker
- They are tall, signorina, and of a thinness—you would not believe it possible.
- Extract from : « Jerry Junior » by Jean Webster
- Not the thinness of emaciation, but that of bodily structure.
- Extract from : « The Galaxy Primes » by Edward Elmer Smith
- Friends noted with concern his thinness and a hacking cough.
- Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose
- The thinness of the King's thought is in part redeemed by its tenacity.
- Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose
- And he was steering my courses to the thinness of a hair, at that!
- Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
Synonyms for thinness
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