littleness

n. 些许, 少量

词形变化

littlenesses 复数 littlenesses

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The property of being little, smallness.

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    His littleness didn't bother him, except when he needed to get something off the top shelf.

    1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Part III, Sect. 21, pp. 161-162, Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty. The humming bird both in shape and colouring yields to none of the winged species, of which it is the least; and perhaps his beauty is enhanced by his smallness.

  2. 2.

    Smallness of spirit; pettiness.

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词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

smallness pettiness

反义词 1

bigness

上位词 10

size weakness closeness meanness tightness minginess niggardliness niggardness parsimoniousness parsimony

下位词 10

grain delicacy diminutiveness dwarfishness minimality minuteness petiteness puniness runtiness slightness

词源

From Middle English litelnes, litelnesse, from Old English lytelnysse, lȳtelnes, equivalent to little + -ness.

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