"Thinness" refers to the quality or state of being thin, which means having a small distance or diameter between opposite sides or surfaces. It describes something that is not thick or bulky but rather slim or slender. Full definition
Sherry Turkle writes about this, and I think we can see in many kids a kind of thinness of interaction where they're not spending the kind of face - to - face time that you might want them to. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
SATAQ Awareness scores were extensively correlated with the Body Dissatisfaction and Drive for Thinness scales for the Caucasian American and Hispanic American female groups. (personalityresearch.org)
And to be honest, parents are up against a lot of competition — between junk food marketing and the preponderance of crazy unhealthy food flooding the landscape in combination with the media and cultural obsession with thinness, it's amazing more of us don't just completely short - circuit. (treehugger.com)