thickness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: thick=ness
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

thickness, n. [AS. icnes.].

 The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

thickness, n.
1 the state of being thick.
2 the extent to which a thing is thick.
3 a layer of material of a certain thickness (three thicknesses of cardboard).
4 a part that is thick or lies between opposite surfaces (steps cut in the thickness of the wall).

Etymology

OE thicness (as THICK, -NESS)

THESAURUS

thickness

adhesiveness, band, bed, bedding, belt, bodily size, body, bulk, cacophony, clabbering, clamminess, closeness, clotting, coagulation, coarseness, colloidality, compactness, congestedness, congestion, consistence, consistency, corpulence, couche, course, cracked voice, crowdedness, curdling, deck, denseness, density, depth, discord, distance through, doughiness, dryness, fatness, firmness, floor, gallery, gelatinity, gelatinousness, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness, grossness, gruffness, gumlikeness, gumminess, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, hardness, harshness, heaviness, hoarseness, huskiness, impenetrability, impermeability, imporosity, incompressibility, incrassation, inspissation, jammedness, jellification, jellylikeness, layer, ledge, lentor, level, mass, measures, mucilaginousness, overlayer, overstory, pastiness, raspiness, raucity, relative density, ropiness, roughness, rudeness, scrapiness, scratchiness, seam, shelf, slabbiness, sliminess, solidity, solidness, specific gravity, spissitude, stage, step, stertorousness, stickiness, stodginess, story, stratum, stringiness, substratum, superstratum, syrupiness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, the third dimension, thickening, throatiness, tier, topsoil, toughness, treacliness, ugliness, underlayer, understory, understratum, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness, zone

ROGET THESAURUS

thickness

Thickness,

N breadth, thickness, breadth, width, latitude, amplitude, diameter, bore, caliber, radius, superficial extent, thickness, crassitude, corpulence, dilation, broad, wide, ample, extended, discous, fanlike, outspread, outstretched, wide as a church-door, latifoliate, latifolous, thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset, thick as a rope, breadth, thickness, breadth, width, latitude, amplitude, diameter, bore, caliber, radius, superficial extent, thickness, crassitude, corpulence, dilation, broad, wide, ample, extended, discous, fanlike, outspread, outstretched, wide as a church-door, latifoliate, latifolous, thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset, thick as a rope.