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The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).

Hair arranged to be worn on the head. The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings. Jer. Taylor.

Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] Boyle.

Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness. [R.] Paley.

oma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.

, a thin plate of gold or gilded metal. -- Gold leaf, gold beaten into a film of extreme thinness, and used for gilding, etc. It is much thinner than gold foil. -- Gold lode (Mining), a gold vein. -- Gold mine, a place where gold is obtained by mining operations, as distinguished from diggings, where it is extracted…

Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.

The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.

Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc.

The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light.

The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.