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• n  the quality of being slight or inadequate
  he knew the slenderness of my wallet
  the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done
  the slenderness of the evidence
• n  relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
• n  the property of an attractively thin person

• The investigators find that body build seems to be controlled by many factors, with fleshiness tending slightly to dominate over slenderness.
• But he does get the girl, which, it seems, helps him learn to like himself a little betterwhich, it seems, may imply slenderness to come.
• She concealed her slenderness in an embonpoint of drapery, revealed the toes of her slippers.

• thinness
• tenuity
• slightness
• slimness

• thickness

Quotes

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• Renzo Piano in San Francisco Chronicle
  It's a sad story. ...... I loved that project,Piano said last week while visiting the academy. "The mix of functions and volumes, the fragmentation, the slenderness (of each tower)."