🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

magreza

Pronunciation / Transliteration: mah-gre-zah

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Thinness/ˈθɪn.nəs/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A magreza dela chamava a atenção de todos."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The physical state or quality of being thin, slender, or having little flesh or fat.

    "Her extreme thinness caused her family to worry about her health."
  2. 2

    The quality of something having little extent from one surface to the opposite, or being sparse and fine in texture.

    "The thinness of the ice made walking across the frozen lake dangerous."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English adjective 'þynne' (thin), combined with the Germanic nominal suffix '-nes' indicating a state or quality. Over centuries, the term has evolved from describing physical dimensions and material objects to encompassing biological body composition and abstract qualities of lack of density.

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