slimness

Other forms of slimness

plural

slimnesses·

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 slimness

What does slimness mean?

slimness means "a small margin". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slimness?

slimness has 2 syllables: slim-ness. The stress falls on "slim".

What is another word for slimness?

Close synonyms include narrow margin, narrowness, slenderness, slightness. 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 slimness a common word?

slimness 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.