Lankness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lankness is a noun meaning The property of being lank, slender or thin.
Meaning
The property of being lank, slender or thin.
More Meanings
- The property of being lank: straight, flat and limp. (of hair)
Example Sentences
The boy's lankness reflected his malnutrition.
When he turned inquiringly toward them they saw that he was stoop-shouldered; though not from any deformity, but from sheer, slouching lankness.
The gravity of his dress, together with a certain lankness of cheek and stiffness of deportment, added nearly ten years to his age, but his figure was that of one not yet past thirty.
Phryne going to the Bath as Venus.— […] Was ever such a heap of rag dolls ever brought together and called men and women. Venuses indeed!—say rather limp-lanknesses seen through a burnt-sienna fog in a classical dream after falling asleep over one of Racine’s tragedies.
Word Forms
- lanknesses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lankiness, slenderness, litheness, slimness, thinness, spindliness.
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