0 the quality of being thin and delicate, often in a way that is attractive : --
They had many bad moments, thinking of the slenderness of their resources.
We tend to associate slenderness with all kinds of positive attributes, from self-control to intelligence.
He emphasised his elegant slenderness in close-fitting garments of black satin.
His great verticality and slenderness may be because it is designed to be seen from below.
Their slenderness makes them better for grouping but because they are long, the centre of gravity is further back.
Those who use the kolinsky sable brush claim it has superior strength, slenderness, and resilience when compared with other sable brushes.
The design stresses its slenderness, and it is capped with a cover dome.
These types can vary in design, mainly slenderness of the hull, draft deep and hull-profile asymmetry.
Over the past decade, one of the most remarkable advances in tall building design has been their construction to unprecedented slenderness ratios.
He thought that it was vital in the assessment of damages that the tribunal should be equipped to take into account the slenderness of some newspapers' resources.
The slenderness of criticism against it has already affected the course of history in a way that not even he anticipated.
