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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Thinness \Thin"ness\, noun The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
thinness
noun
1: relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope" [syn: {tenuity}, {slenderness}] [ant: {thickness}]
2: the property of having little body fat [syn: {leanness}] [ant: {fatness}]
3: the property of being very narrow or thin; "he marvelled at the fineness of her hair" [syn: {fineness}]
4: a consistency of low viscosity; "he disliked the thinness of the soup" [ant: {thickness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
124 Moby Thesaurus words for "thinness": Lenten fare, admission of light, airiness, airy nothing, airy texture, attenuation, austerity, bodilessness, chinchiness, chintziness, clarity, clearness, crystal-clearness, crystallinity, deadness, delicacy, diaphaneity, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, ethereality, exiguity, exiguousness, exility, fewness, filminess, fineness, flatness, flavorlessness, flightiness, flimsiness, fluffiness, frailty, frivolousness, frothiness, gauziness, glassiness, glasslikeness, gossameriness, gracility, immateriality, inanity, incorporeality, infrequency, insipidity, insipidness, insolidity, insubstantiality, jejuneness, jejunity, laciness, lack of depth, leanness, lifelessness, lightness, limpidity, lucidity, meagerness, meanness, mildness, miserliness, mistiness, narrowness, niggardliness, nonopacity, paltriness, paperiness, parsimony, paucity, pellucidity, puniness, rareness, rarity, restrictedness, saplessness, savorlessness, scantiness, scantness, scarcity, scrawniness, scrimpiness, shallow-wittedness, shallowness, sheerness, show-through, skimpiness, slenderness, slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, staleness, stinginess, stringency, subtility, subtilty, subtlety, superficiality, tastelessness, tenuity, tenuousness, tightness, transmission of light, transparence, transparency, transpicuousness, uncloudedness, unprofoundness, unprofundity, unsavoriness, unsubstantiality, vagueness, vapidity, vitreosity, vitreousness, vitrescence, volatility, wateriness, weakness, wishy-washiness, wispiness
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