slenderness

1. 1.

   the quality of being slight or inadequate

   “he knew the slenderness of my wallet”

   “the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done”

   “the slenderness of the evidence”

   Broaderinsufficiency
2. 2.

   relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width

   “the tenuity of a hair”

   “the thinness of a rope”

   Synonymsthinnesstenuity

   Broaderdimension
3. 3.

   the property of an attractively thin person

   Synonymsslightnessslimness

   Broaderleanness

Other forms of slenderness

plural

slendernesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about slenderness

What does slenderness mean?

slenderness means "the quality of being slight or inadequate". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slenderness?

slenderness has 3 syllables: slen-der-ness. The stress falls on "slen".

What is another word for slenderness?

Close synonyms include thinness, tenuity, slightness, slimness. 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 slenderness a common word?

slenderness 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.