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Smallness

The quality or state of being small.

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Amount 76% connected

To go up; to ascend.

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Closeness 76% connected

The state of being close.

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Lowliness 76% connected

The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind.

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Lowness 76% connected

The state or quality of being low.

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Meanness 76% connected

The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

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Niggardliness 76% connected

The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess.

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Niggardness 76% connected

Niggardliness.

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Parsimony 76% connected

Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness.

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Size 76% connected

Six.

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Tightness 76% connected

The quality or condition of being tight.

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Weakness 76% connected

The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.

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Delicacy 76% connected

The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.

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Diminutiveness 76% connected

The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.

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Grain 76% connected

See Groan.

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Minuteness 76% connected

The quality of being minute.

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Puniness 76% connected

The quality or state of being puny; littleness; pettiness; feebleness.

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Slightness 76% connected

The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.

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Little 74% connected

Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill…

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Little 74% connected

Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill…

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Small 74% connected

Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not gr…

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Small 74% connected

Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not gr…

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Littleness 92% connected

The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc.

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Pettiness 92% connected

The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.

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