Littleness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being little, smallness. countable, uncountable

    "For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults."

  2. 2
    lack of generosity in trifling matters wordnet
  3. 3
    Smallness of spirit; pettiness. countable, uncountable

    "Court, city, church are all shops of smallwares; All having blown to sparks their noble fire, And drawn their sound gold ingot into wire; All trying by a love of littleness To make abridgments, and to draw to less Even that nothing which at first we were;"

  4. 4
    the property of having relatively little strength or vigor wordnet
  5. 5
    the property of having a relatively small size wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English litelnes, litelnesse, from Old English lytelnysse, lȳtelnes, equivalent to little + -ness.

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