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thinness
Relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
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noun
Relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
“The tenuity of a hair”
noun
The property of having little body fat
noun
The property of being very narrow or thin
“He marvelled at the fineness of her hair”
noun
The property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
noun
A consistency of low viscosity
“He disliked the thinness of the soup”
noun
The property of lacking substance or strength.
“Perhaps because he recognized the thinness of this critique, the language about lack of theory that appeared in the dissertation was replaced in the book by a more modest critique that PWD lacked adequate conceptual definitions.”
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The tenuity of a hair
The thinness of a rope
He marvelled at the fineness of her hair
He disliked the thinness of the soup
Perhaps because he recognized the thinness of this critique, the language about lack of theory that appeared in the dissertation was replaced in the book by a more modest critique that PWD lacked adequate conceptual definitions.
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