Parvanimity

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "I coin this word parvanimity as an adequate antithesis to magnanimity"

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small mindednesssmall-mindedness

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"I coin this word parvanimity as an adequate antithesis to magnanimity"

Etymology

From Latin parvus (“little”) + animus (“mind”).

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