Littleness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Littleness \Lit"tle*ness\, n.
     The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size,
     thought, duration, power, etc.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness;


          insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  littleness
       n : the property of having a relatively small size [syn: {smallness}]
           [ant: {largeness}, {largeness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  130 Moby Thesaurus words for "littleness":
     abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, authoritarianism,
     baseness, beggarliness, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders,
     brevity, briefness, closed mind, compactness, compendiousness,
     conciseness, contemptibility, contemptibleness, cramped ideas,
     crumminess, curtness, daintiness, debasement, deficiency,
     degradation, delicacy, depravity, despicableness, diminutiveness,
     enormity, execrableness, exiguity, exiguousness, failure,
     fanaticism, fewness, foulness, fulsomeness, grossness, heinousness,
     hideboundness, illiberality, immateriality, imperfection,
     inadequacy, incompetence, inconsequence, inconsequentiality,
     inconsiderableness, indifference, ineffectuality, inferiority,
     insignificance, instantaneousness, insufficiency, insularism,
     insularity, irrelevance, little-mindedness, low priority, lowness,
     maladroitness, marginality, meagerness, mean mind, meanness,
     mediocrity, minginess, minuteness, miserableness, moderateness,
     monstrousness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness,
     narrowness, nearsightedness, nefariousness, negligibility,
     niggardliness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, odium theologicum,
     paltriness, parochialism, pettiness, petty mind, picayune,
     picayunishness, pokiness, poorness, provincialism, puniness,
     purblindness, rankness, scabbiness, scantiness, scrubbiness,
     scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, secondariness, shabbiness,
     shoddiness, short time, shortness, shortsightedness, shut mind,
     slightness, smallness, squalor, stinginess, straitlacedness,
     stuffiness, subnormality, succinctness, summariness, tininess,
     transience, triviality, uncatholicity, ungenerousness,
     unimportance, unimpressiveness, unmagnanimousness,
     unnoteworthiness, unskillfulness, vileness, vulgarity,
     wretchedness