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The property of an attractively thin person
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slightness
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous [syn: pettiness , triviality ] smallness of stature [syn: delicacy ] the property of an attractively thin person [syn: slenderness , slimness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being slight, smallness, petiteness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slightness \Slight"ness\, n. The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
Usage examples of slightness.
Their dresses fitted their figures, and were trimmed with fur and stiffened with whalebones, so they went into the next room, and came back in white bodices and short dimity petticoats, laughing at the slightness of their attire.
It was not a time for talk of any kind, either when they were slowly and not quite smoothly dropping through the lugubrious upper part of the structure, where it was darkened by a rough weatherboarding, or lower down, where the unobstructed light showed the grim tearful face of the cliff, bedrabbled with oozy springs, and the audacious slightness of the elevator.
It was not a time for talk of any kind, either when they were slowly and not quite smoothly dropping through the lugubrious upper part of the structure, where it was darkened by a rough weatherboarding, or lower down, where the unobstructed light showed the grim tearful face of the cliff, bedrabbled with oozy springs, and the audacious slightness of the elevator.
A memorable instance of the slightness of the pretext on which a man could be forced to fight a duel to the death, occurs in the Memoirs of the brave Constable, Du Guesclin.
Tiny noises in infinite variety assumed a menacing quality despite the slightness of sound.