boniness

Questions about boniness

What does boniness mean?

boniness means "extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)".

How many syllables are in boniness?

boniness has 3 syllables and divides as bo-ni-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for boniness?

Close synonyms include bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is boniness a common word?

boniness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.