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Definition of Petiteness
1. Noun. The property of being very small in size. "Hence the minuteness of detail in the painting"
Generic synonyms: Littleness, Smallness
Derivative terms: Diminutive, Minute, Petite, Tiny, Wee
Definition of Petiteness
1. Noun. The quality of being petite. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Petiteness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petiteness
Literary usage of Petiteness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Stage, Or, Recollections of Actors and Acting from an Experience of by James Edward Murdoch, J. Bunting (1880)
"My expectations had indeed been greatly raised by the many encomiums lavished on
him, but were not answered to my wish. There was a petiteness ..."
2. The Stage: Or, Recollections of Actors and Acting from an Experience of by James Edward Murdoch, J. H. Bunting (1884)
"There was a petiteness attended the performance which I thought not quite equal
to the character—his behavior often liable to censure, particularly, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors by Samuel Redgrave (1878)
"Again, ' My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness,
tickles nobody by petiteness. it is without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee ..."
4. Queer Things about Japan by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1903)
"Their figures, it must be admitted, are only little bunches of drapery—pretty
from their petiteness. But this is not a type which the Japanese epicure ..."
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