Meaning of PETTINESS
| Pronunciation: | | p'eteenus
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- [n] lack of generosity in trifling matters
- [n] the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
- [n] narrowness of mind or ideas or views
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| | Synonyms: | | slightness, triviality |
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| | See Also: | | closeness, meanness, minginess, narrow-mindedness, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness, unimportance | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pet"ti*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness;
meanness.
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| | Related Terms: | | abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, authoritarianism, baseness, beggarliness, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, closed mind, contemptibility, contemptibleness, cramped ideas, crumminess, daintiness, debasement, deficiency, degradation, delicacy, depravity, despicableness, diminutiveness, enormity, execrableness, exiguity, exiguousness, failure, fanaticism, fewness, foulness, fulsomeness, grossness, heinousness, hideboundness, illiberality, immateriality, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, indifference, ineffectuality, inferiority, insignificance, insufficiency, insularism, insularity, irrelevance, little-mindedness, littleness, low priority, lowness, maladroitness, marginality, meagerness, mean mind, meanness, mediocrity, minginess, minuteness, miserableness, moderateness, monstrousness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, nefariousness, negligibility, niggardliness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, odium theologicum, paltriness, parochialism, petty mind, picayune, picayunishness, pokiness, poorness, provincialism, puniness, purblindness, rankness, scabbiness, scantiness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, secondariness, shabbiness, shoddiness, shortsightedness, shut mind, slightness, smallness, squalor, stinginess, straitlacedness, stuffiness, subnormality, tininess, triviality, uncatholicity, ungenerousness, unimportance, unimpressiveness, unmagnanimousness, unnoteworthiness, unskillfulness, vileness, vulgarity, wretchedness |
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