skinninessn.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xviii. 371/1 Corius, or Coriousitie, the skin, or skinniness of Man, Beast, or fish.

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) II. Skinniness, the being skinny, Leanness.

1767 A. Shackleford Mod. Art Cookery Improved p. vi Bull beef is hardly worth mentioning; yet to avoid being imposed upon, it may be known by the skinniness of the fat, the toughness and deep redness of the lean.

1869 Putnam's Mag. Jan. 25/1 Except a noticeable tendency to angular outlines and skinniness, there is nothing to distinguish them physically from the old women of other countries.

1891 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Daily Tribune 1 Dec. 4/2 The other variety of baby, the monkey sort, is frequently hairy on the head... It inclines to skinniness.

1913 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 11 Aug. 14/2 Thousands of people..resign themselves to life-long skinniness and think nothing will make them fat.

1978 Eng. Jrnl. 67 89/1 Her mother, obsessed with her own Twiggy-like skinniness, nags her daughter about dieting.

2006 S. M. Stirling Sky People xi. 227 A little of the gangly skinniness had left the animal, and his neck and shoulders were beginning to develop bands of muscle.