Synonyms for thinness
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
2. Sparseness
Other
fineness, leanness, paucity, rareness, scantiness, exility, fewness, meagerness US, meagreness UK, subtility, subtilty, infrequency, thinliness rare
Definitions
- n. 1
The state or quality of being thin.
Forms
- Plural
- thinnesses → delicacies, rarities, slendernesses, tenuities…
Example sentences
- rarity A perfectly clear and windless day is a real rarity.
- delicacy Fried spiders are a regional delicacy in Cambodia.
- sparseness The sparseness of the store is to be expected after a successful sales event.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| thinness | steady | |
| rarity | steady | |
| delicacy | steady | |
| slenderness | steady | |
| tenuity | steady | |
| sparseness | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- rarity3
- 7 letters
- paucity3, tenuity, exility, fewness
- 8 letters
- delicacy4, fineness, sparsity, leanness, rareness2, exiguity, subtilty
- 9 letters
- spareness, gracility, subtility
- 10 letters
- sparseness, scantiness3, meagerness, meagreness, thinliness
- 11 letters
- infrequency4, slenderness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rarity3 = 3 syllables).