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The property of being little, smallness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- His littleness didn't bother him, except when he needed to get something off the top shelf.
- 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Part III, Sect. 21, pp. 161-162, Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty. The humming bird both in shape and colouring yields to none of the winged species, of which it is the least; and perhaps his beauty is enhanced by his smallness.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Smallness of spirit; pettiness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
lack of generosity in trifling matters
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pettiness, smallness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness
the property of having relatively little strength or vigor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the smallness of her voice
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: smallness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: weakness
the property of having a relatively small size
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: smallness
Antonyms: bigness
Broader terms: size
Narrower terms: diminutiveness, minuteness, petiteness, tininess, weeness, delicacy, slightness, grain, puniness, runtiness, stuntedness, dwarfishness
From Middle English litelnes, litelnesse, from Old English lytelnysse, lȳtelnes, equivalent to little + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Hindi:
अल्पता
(alpatā)
— state of being little
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Latin:
parvitās
— state of being little
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Ottoman Turkish:
قلت
(kıllet)
— state of being little
