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Meanings of spareness in English

Catalan
primària

The property of having little body fat.

      primària

      The property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness.

            Usage of spareness in English
            1
            Her legs were gone; her torso had been reduced to an impressionistic spareness.
            Blood music
            2
            The type is uniform-mediumstature, spareness, dark eyes and hair, and olive complexion predominating.
            In the Heart of the Vosges and Other Sketches by a "Devious Trav...
            3
            He dressed always in black, and the closely-buttoned jacket revealed the spareness of his body.
            Mike Fletcher: A Novel
            4
            He was a man with an actual talent for bareness and spareness in his sleeping quarters.
            The Window-Gazer
            5
            I learned that great rock was not about volume and wildness, but about precision and spareness.
            The Guardian
            6
            Ti Green's design pulls sumptuousness out of spareness.
            The Guardian
            7
            Despite the spareness of his frame, he climbed the ascent with a rapidity that made him gasp.
            The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
            8
            It's the spareness that is so surprising.
            The Guardian
            9
            There was a laugh at Ketill's words, for his person had never been noted for its spareness.
            Vandrad the Viking; Or, The Feud and the Spell
            10
            To remember the fullness of spareness.
            The pull of the moon: a novel
            11
            He was rather undersized, as Chinese go, and the Chinese narrow shoulders and spareness of flesh were his.
            The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
            12
            His innovation was his utter spareness.
            The Guardian
            13
            And there's a concentrated spareness of manner, a pursuit of profundity in simplicity, that Haydn would surely have recognised.
            The Irish Times
            14
            Lanny is similarly remarkable for its simultaneous spareness and extravagance, and again it is a book full of love.
            The Guardian
            15
            Griffeth's figure was slight to spareness, and save in moments of excitement there was something of languor in his movements.
            The Lord of Dynevor: A Tale of the Times of Edward the First
            16
            She associated spareness of person with high thinking, and an abundance of flesh as an indication of material or commonplace aims.
            Unleavened Bread
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            Catalan
            primària
            Spareness through the time