0 the quality of being very thin, especially because of sickness or hunger:
She has a gauntness which is probably the product of fitness as much as fatigue.
He had taken off an overcoat while his host was opening the champagne, and evening clothes accentuated a mature gauntness of body and limb.
The clean-shaven face was thin to gauntness, and the dark eyes were unnaturally bright and wistful.
He had grown in stature, but the gauntness of his face made his coarse features stand out so, that he was almost repulsive.
The high desert stretched vastly, far, far, far before, behind, on either side, the parched gauntness of its daytime aspect assuaged and evanescent.
A three days' beard heightened the gauntness of his face; he did not move when his padrona announced her.
