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Slenderness

noun

The quality of being slight or inadequate. "The slenderness of the chances that anything would be done" , "The slenderness of the evidence"

Relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width. Synonyms: tenuity, thinness. "The thinness of a rope"

The property of an attractively thin person. Synonyms: slightness, slimness.

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"Slenderness" Quotes from Famous Books

... physiognomy and phrenology have any truth in them, there was little strength in her character. In the womanly yieldingness of the short curved upper lip, the pleading timidity of the regard, the disproportionate but elegant slenderness of the head between the ear and the neck, there were the tokens of one who cannot resist the will, perhaps the whim, of another whom she either ...

— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... the pink cloud of the apple blossoms her aviator son looking handsomer than she had ever beheld him, leading a girl in white-fringed crepe that clung in soft folds to her slenderness. All about her shoulders fell a veil of golden hair, and her appealing eyes glowed in a face at once ...

— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham

... noises. But just then I wasn't disposed to be critical. I was full of the sense of her presence; her arm was stretched out over me as she moved past me, the gracious slenderness of her body was near me. The words we used didn't seem very greatly to matter. I had vague ideas of getting out with ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... enough left to see—enough to charm. There was the little rim of delicate white lace, encircling the lovely, dusky throat; there was the figure visible, where the shawl had fallen open, slender, but already well developed in its slenderness, and exquisitely supple; there was the waist, naturally low, and left to its natural place and natural size; there were the little millinery and jewellery ornaments that she wore—simple and common-place enough in themselves—yet each ...

— Basil • Wilkie Collins

... and gray sheets of rain shroud all the central highlands in mystery and sadness. Beyond them, without a shore, spreads open sea. But the fantastic grandeur of the place cannot be described in words. The pencil of the artist must be trusted. I can vouch that he has not in the least exaggerated the slenderness and steepness of the rock-masses. One of them, it is said, has never been climbed; unless a myth which hangs about it is true. Certain English sailors, probably of Rodney's men—and numbering, according to the pleasure of the narrator, ...

— At Last • Charles Kingsley

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