1
as in smallness
the quality or state of being little in size
the littleness of the painting hardly gives any indication of its price—which is a fortune
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as in negligibility
the quality or state of being unimportant
you can hardly imagine the appalling littleness of the stuff that she obsesses over
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for littleness
Noun
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Its relative smallness, however, prevents the initiation of the nuclear processes that could have turned it into a full-fledged star.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
7 Jan. 2026 -
Compared to his siblings, Tusche was this tiny, delicate bundle and that smallness was the very first thing that caught my heart.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Problems shrink into insignificance.—
Shilo Urban,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Nov. 2025
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Her difficulty lay in her distance from the random violence of insignificance.—
Rachel Cusk,
New Yorker,
24 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Florida has had enough of pettiness, politic stunts and petulance.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Jan. 2026
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The big swings through pettiness are their own form of vulnerability.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
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“Littleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/littleness. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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