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Gauntness   /gˈɔntnəs/   Listen
Gauntness

noun
1.
Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease).  Synonyms: boniness, bonyness, emaciation, maceration.





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"Gauntness" Quotes from Famous Books



... this discipline a change came over his appearance. His features, always inclined to gauntness, became even sharper and more pronounced. There were deep lines about his temples and across his brow. His cheek was sunken and his complexion bloodless. His knees gave under him when he walked; and once when passing out of his lecture-room he fell ...
— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle


Words linked to "Gauntness" :   leanness, thinness, spareness, gaunt


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