smallness
English
Etymology
From small + -ness
Noun
smallness (countable and uncountable, plural smallnesses)
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being small.
- His smallness didn't bother him, except when he needed something off the top shelf.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: Printed for Hen[ry] Brome […], OCLC 48702491; reprinted as Hydriotaphia (The English Replicas), New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1927, OCLC 78413388, page 136:
- The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
- (countable) The result or product of being small.
Translations
state of being small
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