leanness
Noun
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The quality of being meager (synset 105120762)
"an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"subtypes:
- wateriness - meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)
- abstemiousness - restricted to bare necessities
- spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness - the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
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The property of having little body fat (synset 105008647)
is a type of: bodily property - an attribute of the bodysubtypes:
- scrawniness, skinniness - the bodily property of lacking flesh
- boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration - extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
- slenderness, slightness, slimness - the property of an attractively thin person
- wiriness - the property of being lean and tough and sinewy
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