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Synonyms for littleness
lit·tle·ness
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Princeton's WordNet
smallness, littlenessnoun
the property of having a relatively small size
smallness, littlenessnoun
the property of having relatively little strength or vigor
"the smallness of her voice"
pettiness, littleness, smallnessnoun
lack of generosity in trifling matters
Synonyms:
slightness, puniness, pettiness, triviality, smallness
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#244487 | littleness |
How to use littleness in a sentence?
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating:
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840:
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.
When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own intersts.
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