Etymology

lilliputianism

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Today it means: The quality or tendency of being very small. Full definition →

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The story

From lilliputian + -ism; from the name of a fictional island called Lilliput in the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.