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Slimness

noun
1.
A small margin.  Synonyms: narrow margin, narrowness.  "The landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote"
2.
The property of an attractively thin person.  Synonyms: slenderness, slightness.






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"Slimness" Quotes from Famous Books



... made by young trees in the woods. Their light supply is chiefly from above, and they stretch up toward it as rapidly as possible. Dim light causes rapid growth at the expense, however, of strength of tissue, but as these young trees are protected in the woods from the strain of wind storms, their slimness and lack of toughness is a benefit rather than a hindrance to them. Also, the limbs near the ground die off while the trees are still young and small, giving us the clear timber tree, free from large knots, tall and straight. Make further ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study • Ontario Ministry of Education

... standing on the farther side of the pillar-gateway, a figure that paused close to the carved balustrade and looked out over the garden. There was a suggestion of weariness and discouragement in the pose, and though the form had Sanda's tall slimness he could hardly believe it to be hers, until passing through the gateway he had come quite close to her. She turned at the sound of footsteps; and in the rose-and-silver twilight he could see that her eyes were full ...
— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson



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