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Noun: gauntness  gont-nus
  1. Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
    "The prisoner's gauntness was evidence of the harsh conditions";
    - bonyness, boniness, emaciation, maceration [archaic]

Type of: leanness, spareness, thinness