finenessnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈfaɪn.nəs/us/ˈfaɪn.nəs/fineness noun [ U ] (THIN QUALITY)
the quality of being very thin:
It's the fineness of the thread that makes the cloth so soft.
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Thin and fine
- delicate
- elongate
- elongated
- fine
- finely
- hairline
- knife edge
- narrow
- paper-thin
- papery
- pencil-thin
- razor-thin
- sheer
- slim
- slimline
- thin
- thinly
- waisted
- wasp-waisted
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fineness noun [ U ] (EXACTNESS)
the quality of being very exact and delicate:
When I look at her paintings I'm always struck by the fineness of the details.
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Accurate and exact
- accuracy
- accurate
- aright
- authoritative
- bang
- be bang on idiom
- exact
- exactly
- flat
- infallible
- infallibly
- letter-perfect
- literal
- many
- technically
- to the day idiom
- to the letter idiom
- truly
- unerring
- verbatim
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