NOUN
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the property of being very small in size
hence the minuteness of detail in the painting
How To Use tininess In A Sentence
- Twenty-five years later, both these men were at this dinner party, which gives you an idea of the tininess of this world.
- We'd all sat down at the enormous round table by the time she arrived, eleven of us, chattering away, and she arrived, this tiny white-haired lady, and nestled into a space next my brother, exaggerating her tininess.
- It seemed in the context of the time almost comically toylike in its tininess. Times, Sunday Times
- Here is a sculptor using tininess as a megaphone that amplifies his message. Times, Sunday Times
- Public pools cite local government ordinances on the wearing of clothing of the requisite tininess while in the water. Times, Sunday Times
- He's amazingly short and shrimpy and I think that even I, in my tininess, am probably bigger than he is.
- ‘I wanted to show the murrelet all alone in the wide wide sea and give it this feeling of poignancy and vulnerability and tininess,’ says Bateman.
- Her physical tininess does not come into it. Times, Sunday Times
- A certain homespun, unassuming, untidy tininess had become a virtue in itself.
- Not the hugeness of the outrage - but the tininess of the cause. Times, Sunday Times