noun
Meaning 1
The property of being slight, smallness, petiteness
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Poor nutrition explained his slightness.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
slightness
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noun
Meaning 2
the property of an attractively thin person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slenderness, slimness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: leanness, thinness, spareness
noun
Meaning 3
smallness of stature
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: delicacy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: smallness, littleness
noun
Meaning 4
the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pettiness, triviality, puniness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unimportance
Narrower terms: joke
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English slight Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English slightness From slight + -ness.