noun
1. the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
• Syn: ↑sparseness, ↑sparsity, ↑thinness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑thin (for: ↑thinness), ↑sparse (for: ↑sparsity), ↑spare, ↑sparse (for: ↑sparseness)
• Hypernyms:
2. the property of having little body fat
• Hypernyms: ↑bodily property
• Hyponyms:
↑skinniness, ↑scrawniness, ↑bonyness, ↑boniness, ↑emaciation, ↑gauntness, ↑maceration, ↑slenderness, ↑slightness, ↑slimness, ↑wiriness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.