Noun: leanness leen-nus
- The property of having little body fat
"The athlete's leanness was a result of rigorous training and diet";
- thinness, spareness
- The quality of being meagre
"The leanness of the harvest worried the farmers";
- meagerness [N. Amer], meagreness [Brit, Cdn], poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, skimpiness
Type of: bodily property, deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency
Antonym: avoirdupois