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3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Thickness \Thick"ness\, noun [AS. ?icnes.] The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

thickness

noun

1: the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width [ant: {thinness}]

2: used of a line or mark [syn: {heaviness}]

3: resistance to flow [ant: {thinness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

121 Moby Thesaurus words for "thickness": adhesiveness, band, bed, bedding, belt, bodily size, body, bulk, cacophony, clabbering, clamminess, closeness, clotting, coagulation, coarseness, colloidality, compactness, congestedness, congestion, consistence, consistency, corpulence, couche, course, cracked voice, crowdedness, curdling, deck, denseness, density, depth, discord, distance through, doughiness, dryness, fatness, firmness, floor, gallery, gelatinity, gelatinousness, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness, grossness, gruffness, gumlikeness, gumminess, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, hardness, harshness, heaviness, hoarseness, huskiness, impenetrability, impermeability, imporosity, incompressibility, incrassation, inspissation, jammedness, jellification, jellylikeness, layer, ledge, lentor, level, mass, measures, mucilaginousness, overlayer, overstory, pastiness, raspiness, raucity, relative density, ropiness, roughness, rudeness, scrapiness, scratchiness, seam, shelf, slabbiness, sliminess, solidity, solidness, specific gravity, spissitude, stage, step, stertorousness, stickiness, stodginess, story, stratum, stringiness, substratum, superstratum, syrupiness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, the third dimension, thickening, throatiness, tier, topsoil, toughness, treacliness, ugliness, underlayer, understory, understratum, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness, zone

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