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UK
/smˈɔːlnəs/
]
[ US /ˈsmɔɫnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈsmɔɫnəs/ ]
NOUN
- the property of having a relatively small size
- lack of generosity in trifling matters
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the property of having relatively little strength or vigor
the smallness of her voice -
the property of being a relatively small amount
he was attracted by the smallness of the taxes
How To Use smallness In A Sentence
- The questions are here posed: is the continuance of Indian hunger and poverty a consequence of the smallness of the preponderant majority of the nation's farms?
- Despite its relative smallness, because of a scarcity of available musicians, this band was one of the air force's finest.
- The smallness of the drops explains the frequent appearance of the fogbow in connection with the glory.
- But there is still, after so many years of doing this, also a sense of my own smallness, standing in the waves under the stars, casting and hoping, and like surfmen everywhere, ultimately facing the ocean in solitary insignificance. The Call of the Surf
- This may have been to avoid exciting the prejudices of the people; however, the smallness of the force shows that the districts of the Jereed are well-affected. Travels in Morocco
- His smallness in jealousy contrasts with her extreme sacrifice.
- Most remarkable was the smallness of the clerical staff servicing the courts of law and the council.
- I prefer the smallness of the cities south of Seattle.
- But from exility of bones, thinness of skulls, smallness of teeth, ribs, and thigh-bones, not improbable that many thereof were persons of minor age, or woman. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
- His legendary charisma is decidedly deflated, not only by the smallness of his head on the TV screen, but by the presence of what appears to be an ashtray on top of the set.