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Pettiness

Pettiness Meaning & Definition
Pettiness Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pettiness?

[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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pettiness: slightness | triviality

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pettiness: 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

See Also | closeness | meanness | minginess | narrow-mindedness | niggardliness | niggardness | parsimoniousness | parsimony | tightfistedness | tightness | unimportance

Pettiness In Webster's Dictionary

\Pet"ti*ness\, n. The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.

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