tininess

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The cartoon is labeled as “not even kind of sort of vaguely close to scale,” which manages to convey tininess that is inherently difficult to grasp.

From Scientific American • Oct. 22, 2023

When Leia puts her hand in Obi-Wan's, my own near-10-year-old gasped at the tininess.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2022

He has plenty of poetic company, all seduced by the color, beauty and teeny tininess of the hummingbird but failed to notice the ferocity burning in its rapidly beating heart.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2019

The extreme tininess of these babies might seem unusual—panda mothers typically weigh 900 times more than their newborns, while human mothers are only around 20 times heavier than their babies.

From National Geographic • Aug. 28, 2015

There is a curious inverse relationship in modern physics between the tininess of the thing being sought and the scale of facilities required to do the searching.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson