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Definition of Slightness
1. Noun. The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.
Generic synonyms: Unimportance
Specialized synonyms: Joke
Derivative terms: Petty, Puny, Slight, Trivial
2. Noun. Smallness of stature.
3. Noun. The property of an attractively thin person.
Generic synonyms: Leanness, Spareness, Thinness
Derivative terms: Slender, Slender, Slight, Slim
Definition of Slightness
1. n. The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
Definition of Slightness
1. Noun. The property of being slight, smallness, petiteness ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slightness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slightness
Literary usage of Slightness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1899)
"Without forgetting the vicissitudes through which the relics passed, or the
slightness of the reward to the visitor of to-day ..."
2. Ellen Middleton: A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton (1846)
"... the slightness of her figure and the delicate beauty of her features gave her
the appearance of youth, her face bore a •wild and haggard expression that ..."
3. Islam and the Oriental Churches: Their Historical Relations : Students by William Ambrose Shedd (1904)
"slightness of Muslim influence on Christianity, and limits of Christian influence
on Islam. Can Islam meet modern conditions ? ..."
4. First Book in Geology by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1898)
"... we must regard them as very trifling accidents, and rather wonder at the
slightness of their effects than regard them as unnecessary convulsions. ..."
5. Good Thoughts in Bad Times, Good Thoughts in Worse Times, Mixt by Thomas Fuller (1841)
"Answers to the Objections of a wounded Conscience drawn from the slightness of
his Repentance. TIMOTHEUS. I BELIEVE my sins are pardonable in themselves, ..."
6. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"Contrast between the Upheaval of Ferrite on Polished Surfaces and the slightness
of the Preference of Rupture for Ferrite.—This contrast is illustrated by ..."
7. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"Contrast between the Upheaval of Ferrite on Polished Surfaces and the slightness
of the Preference of Rupture for Ferrite.—This contrast is illustrated by ..."
8. The Queen of Naples and Lord Nelson: An Historical Biography Based on Mss by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1889)
"... whilom Solicitor of Craven Street, Strand —slightness of his Friendship with
Lord Nelson—Fanciful Statements made by Mr. Haslewood in his old Age—His ..."
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