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
Example sentences :
  • 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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