tininess
Example Sentences
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A grain of sand is generally used for expressing tininess, or insignificance.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2023
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
Newborns of any species tend to be delightful, and the piglets — in their tininess and charming ungainliness — prove natural-born scene stealers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2020
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
It is of course the abundance and extreme durability of atoms that makes them so useful, and the tininess that makes them so hard to detect and understand.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
