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narrowness

[ US /ˈnɛɹoʊnəs/ ]
[ UK /nˈæɹə‍ʊnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a small margin
    the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote
    the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory
  2. the property of being narrow; having little width
    the narrowness of the road
  3. a restriction of range or scope
    the attraction of the book is precisely its narrowness of focus
    frustrated by the narrowness of people's horizons
    the problem with achievement tests is the narrowness they impose on students
  4. an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior

How To Use narrowness In A Sentence

  • Clearly this point can move much faster than the blades themselves, depending on the narrowness of the angle between them.
  • Let a man throw aside that narrowness of soul, that selfishness of principle, which the niggards of all professions are so unwilling to part with; and he will be at once delivered of his fears on that head.
  • How they reconcile such an endlessness, which is also such a narrowness, with what I believe is an instinctual need for a hierarchy with meaningful functions, we do not yet know. Starfarers
  • Ultimately, the cooperative factories foundered on the narrowness, not the utopianism, of their vision.
  • Every glimpse provided North American audiences into the lives, problems and thinking of peoples around the world, including their artistic circles, is a blow against provincialism and narrowness.
  • The concentration on sufficiency thus produces a marked narrowness in the approach: It is an instrument for proof, rather than part of an open-minded search for truth.
  • The marooned seaman saves his sanity by cutting notches in a stick, the solitary prisoner by friendship with a mouse; and when life is reduced to the last exiguity of narrowness, the interests of life will be narrow too. The Quest of the Simple Life
  • Loneliness and sense of rejection schedules. develop from seeking and expecting meekly or rejecting This is why family members weren't in dilemma arrogantly due to our narrowness! Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Alas! it is the narrowness, selfishness, minuteness, of your sensation that you have to deplore in England at this day; —sensation which spends itself in bouquets and speeches; in revelings and junketings; in sham fights and gay puppet shows, while you can look on and see noble nations murdered, man by man, without an effort or a tear. Sesame and Lilies. Lecture I.-Sesame: Of Kings’ Treasuries
  • the attraction of the book is precisely its narrowness of focus
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