slenderness
noun
slenderness is a noun meaning “The property of being slender” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-L-E-N-D-E-R-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of slenderness is slendernesses.
What does slenderness mean?
noun
- 1
The property of being slender.
- 2
The quotient between the height and the width of a building.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of slenderness
- slendernesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is slenderness?
Slenderness appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Slenderness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense property of being slender:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sveltesse |
| German | Schlankheit |
| Spanish | esbeltez |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does slenderness come from?
From slender + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).