0 the quality of being very thin, especially because of sickness or hunger: --
His face had lost something of its hint of gauntness, even before his chief engineer had swung down from the saddle.
Then she noticed the gauntness of his bronzed face and how lean he was.
She also saw how worn his face was, and the gauntness of his frame, and her compassion was stronger than her pride.
He was probably not more than forty years old, but his gauntness made him look older.
In the few hours that had passed he seemed to have wasted to a startling gauntness.
He had also known adversity, she deduced from the gauntness of his face and a certain grimness of expression.
She hadn't been prepared for this altered man with his limp and his gauntness and his strained intensity.
Tall, it was thin to the point of gauntness.
