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Meanings of leanness in English

Spanish
escasez

The quality of being meager.

      escasez
      Catalan
      primària

      The property of having little body fat.

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          Usage of leanness in English
          1
          Meanwhile, athletes are far more prone, especially in sports that emphasize leanness.
          Climbing Magazine
          2
          The ladies of the harem gazed upon my leanness with commiserating wonder.
          The Magnificent Montez: From Courtesan to Convert
          3
          Old Dr. Kendal, six feet of leanness doubled up in an arm-chair.
          Mary Olivier: a Life
          4
          It had its desire, and as a consequence, 'leanness in its soul.'
          Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah
          5
          The earth was the Lord's and the fulness thereof; also the leanness thereof.
          Twilight in Italy
          6
          And in the same way of extreme leanness and extreme fatness.
          The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2
          7
          The leanness of the cattle will account for the number killed each day.
          Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical ...
          8
          The advantage to this approach would be that it ensures leanness and agility.
          The Guardian
          9
          This treatment cured him; his white-greenish complexion and his leanness disappeared.
          Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon
          10
          The leanness of arms, the flat chest, the hollows were gone.
          The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel
          11
          Remembrance, lifting her leanness, keened in the gates of my heart.
          Irish Plays and Playwrights
          12
          He was very skinny, with the dried up leanness of the bronzed Mediterranean.
          Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
          13
          Moreover, the very leanness of the famous official appealed to him.
          The Flaw in the Sapphire
          14
          I felt an allegory hiding its leanness somewhere beneath the glow and colour.
          AE in the Irish Theosophist
          15
          The flaring set of his ears somehow emphasized an overall leanness.
          Exile
          16
          Little is known about genetic variants that predispose individuals toward leanness or fatness.
          Pubmed
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          Spanish
          escasez
          Catalan
          primària
          Leanness through the time
          Leanness across language varieties
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