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for leanness
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Leanness \Lean"ness\, n. [AS. hl[=ae]nnes.]
The condition or quality of being lean.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
leanness
n 1: the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that
would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn:
meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness,
scantiness, scantness, exiguity]
2: the property of having little body fat [syn: leanness,
thinness, spareness] [ant: avoirdupois, blubber,
fat, fatness]
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