leanness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quality of being meager
    scantiness; exiguity; meagreness; scantness; poorness; meagerness.
    • an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
  2. noun the property of having little body fat
    thinness; spareness.

WordNet

Lean"ness noun
Etymology
AS. hl&aemac;nnes.
Definitions
  1. The condition or quality of being lean.

Webster 1913