narrowness

narrowness

English

Etymology

narrow +‎ -ness

Noun

narrowness (countable and uncountable, plural narrownesses)

1. (uncountable) the state of being narrow
   • 1749, [John Cleland], Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: Printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:

     presently, then, I felt the stiff insertion between the yielding, divided lips of the wound, now open for life; where the narrowness no longer put me to intolerable pain, and afforded my lover no more difficulty than what heighten'd his pleasure, in the strict embrace of that tender, warm sheath, round the instrument it was so delicately adjusted to

2. (countable) a constriction

Antonyms

• (state of being narrow): broadness, wideness

Translations

state of being narrow

Finnish: kapeus (fi), ahtaus (fi), täpäryys (fi) French: étroitesse (fr) German: Enge (de), Beschränktheit Alemannic German: Schmeeli Greek: στενότητα (el) (stenótita) Ancient: στενότης f (stenótēs)

Japanese: 狭さ (semasa), 狭小 (kyōshō), 狭窄 (ja) (kyōsaku), 狭隘 (ja) (kyōai) Portuguese: estreiteza (pt) f Spanish: estrechez (es)