Meanings
nountininess (usually uncountable, plural tininesses)
plural tininesses
- uncountableusuallyThe property of being tiny; minuteness.
He himself seemed to have shrunk to the tininess of the insect he had watched at the foot of the larch […]
1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 78
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe property of being very small in size
Broader
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Latin pusillitas
- pusillitasthe propetry of being tiny
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