Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for THIN'NESS
THIN'NESS, n.
- The state of being thin; smallness of extent from one side or surface to the opposite; as, the thinness of ice; the thinness of a plate; the thinness of the skin.
- Tenuity; rareness; as, the thinness of air or other fluid.
- A state approaching to fluidity, or even fluidity; opposed to spissitude; as, the thinness of honey, of white wash, or of paint.
- Exility; as, the thinness of a point.
- Rareness; a scattered state; paucity; as, the thinness of trees in a forest; the thinness of inhabitants.
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