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Definition of Smallness
1. Noun. The property of having a relatively small size.
Generic synonyms: Size
Specialized synonyms: Diminutiveness, Minuteness, Petiteness, Tininess, Weeness, Delicacy, Slightness, Grain, Puniness, Runtiness, Stuntedness, Dwarfishness
Antonyms: Bigness, Largeness
Derivative terms: Little, Small, Small
2. Noun. The property of being a relatively small amount. "He was attracted by the smallness of the taxes"
3. Noun. The property of having relatively little strength or vigor. "The smallness of her voice"
4. Noun. Lack of generosity in trifling matters.
Generic synonyms: Closeness, Meanness, Minginess, Niggardliness, Niggardness, Parsimoniousness, Parsimony, Tightfistedness, Tightness
Derivative terms: Little, Petty
Definition of Smallness
1. n. The quality or state of being small.
Definition of Smallness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being small. ¹
2. Noun. The result or product of being small. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Smallness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Smallness
Literary usage of Smallness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1872)
"... our common friend, Dickens used to point for one of the illustrations 1826-7
of his favorite theory as to the smallness of the world, and smallness how ..."
2. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1892)
"Then smallness cannot be in the whole of one, but, if at all, in a part only?
... Then smallness will not be in anything, whether in a whole or in a part; ..."
3. A Digest of the Law of Libel and Slander: And of Actions on the Case for by William Blake Odgers, James Bromley Eames (1905)
"... smallness of Damages. So, too, there is no inexorable rule of practice which
precludes the Court from granting a new trial on account of ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"CONCERNING smallness To avoid a sameness which may arise from the too frequent
repetition of the same reasonings, and of illustrations of the same nature, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... and when found together with smallness, and when to the pleasure of accuracy
is joined that of a feat of skill, admiration knows no bounds. ..."
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