Dictionary Check: thinness
"thinness" is a valid word!
Scrabble
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Words with Friends
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Definition
noun
relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
Example:
"the tenuity of a hair"
noun
the property of having little body fat
noun
the property of being very narrow or thin
Example:
"he marvelled at the fineness of her hair"
noun
the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
noun
a consistency of low viscosity
Example:
"he disliked the thinness of the soup"
noun
The property of lacking substance or strength.
Example:
"Perhaps because he recognized the thinness of this critique, the language about lack of theory that appeared in the dissertation was replaced in the book by a more modest critique that PWD lacked adequate conceptual definitions."
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