noun
1. the quality of being slight or inadequate
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he knew the slenderness of my wallet
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the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done
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the slenderness of the evidence
• Derivationally related forms: ↑slender
• Hypernyms: ↑insufficiency, ↑inadequacy, ↑deficiency
2. relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
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the tenuity of a hair
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the thinness of a rope
• Hypernyms: ↑dimension
3. the property of an attractively thin person
• Syn: ↑slightness, ↑slimness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.