littleness
pronunciation
How to pronounce littleness in British English:
UK ['lɪtlnəs]
How to pronounce littleness in American English:
US ['lɪtlnəs]
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- Noun:
- the property of having a relatively small size
Word Origin
- littleness (n.)
- Old English lytelnes; see little + -ness.
Example
- 1. A man 's deed is the touchstone of his greatness or littleness .
- 2. Yet would I offer you my body , you whom I love , its littleness ?
- 3. The littleness of one 's fellows in the mob of life is a very strange experience .
- 4. Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others .
- 5. They are all a hotchpotch of greatness and littleness , of virtue and vice , of nobility and baseness .