Littleness
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 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 lack of generosity in trifling matters wordnet
- 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 the property of having relatively little strength or vigor wordnet
- 5 the property of having a relatively small size wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Middle English litelnes, litelnesse, from Old English lytelnysse, lȳtelnes, equivalent to little + -ness.
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