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smallness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | littleness |
| Synonyms: | atomity, brevity, diminutiveness, dinkiness, infinitesimalness, minuteness, narrowness, petiteness, scantiness, shortness, slightness, small size, smallishness, tininess |
| Concept: | Smallness. |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY; QUANTITY BY COMPARISON WITH A STANDARD |
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-nouns
smallness; littleness (small size); tenuity; paucity; fewness (small number); meanness, insignificance (unimportance); mediocrity, moderation., small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair., nutshell; thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful; fragment; fraction (part); drop in the ocean., animalcule., trifle (unimportant thing); mere nothing, next to nothing; hardly anything; just enough to swear by; the shadow of a shade., finiteness, finite quantity.
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| Antonyms: | greatness |
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