thinness

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Comments about the virtue of weight and thinness never go away, are they helpful?

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Quick take

relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of thinness gathered in one view.

noun

relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope"

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for thinness.

noun

relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope"

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

See also: sparseness, spareness, sparsity

noun

a consistency of low viscosity; "he disliked the thinness of the soup"

Example sentences

Comments about the virtue of weight and thinness never go away, are they helpful?

The result is that Apples products have unique shapes, textures and thinness.

But I feel like Apple's obsession with thinness may have gone too far if they need to protrude the camera like this.

Additionally the "thinness" is largely not that big of a deal with the retina displays.

It was designed with a purpose, no part of which beyond thinness obtains when applied to a non-Apple device.

Android manufacturers have been obsessed at the high end with big screens and thinness, both of which come at the expense of battery life.

For instance, the court cited noticeable differences in the front surface design and in the thinness of the side profile.

Whereas girls are valued on something superficial and damaging - thinness, "beauty".

With recycling and thinness, the original production energy can be amortized over 10-100× more containers than an equal strength of glass.

I don't mean to be flip, but it beggars belief to say that this is some sort of platonic form of tablet connector, especially given that the connector originated on the iPod in 2003, and existed not for stability, but for thinness, and to provide additional pins for accessories in a larger Apple-specific ecosystem.