thickness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
  2. noun indistinct articulation
    • judging from the thickness of his speech he had been drinking heavily
  3. noun used of a line or mark
    heaviness.
  4. noun resistance to flow

WordNet


Thick"ness noun
Etymology
AS. icnes.
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).

Webster 1913