📏 Small size 💧 Weakness 🤏 Pettiness

littleness

8.0

A small amount of strength or force

noun
/ˈlɪtlnəs/

: debilidad

Despite her great talent, she often felt a sense of littleness when surrounded by more experienced artists.

Examples

My horse was frightened, and my own heart failed me as the locks and the uprooted trees bore down upon my littleness, but not my soul.
There is a littleness to him which you discovered that I did not.

Emma (1996)
Our littleness conceals abnormal strength.

Fiction book (2002)
He struggled with feelings of littleness after failing to meet the high expectations set by his peers.
The team recognized that their littleness in numbers would not deter them from attempting the challenge.

Synonyms

weakness

vslittleness

133 1.4

Lack of physical or mental strength that makes someone less able to act

focuses on having little strength force or vigor rather than mental lack

thinness

vslittleness

1 4.2

Lack of strong, detailed ideas or proof in a text

points to lacking strength force or vigor rather than merely little substance or depth

smallness

vslittleness

1 3.7

The state of having little energy or force

is the same meaning but uses a different noun form

feebleness

vslittleness

1 5.2

A lack of strength in an argument or evidence

refers more to the general condition of having little power or vigor

slightness

vslittleness

1 6.1

A thin, small body that looks weak

refers to low strength force or vigor rather than just delicate build

tenuousness

vslittleness

8.1

A weak or slight state often about ideas and relationships

means a clear condition of having little strength or vigor rather than fragile appearance

puniness

vslittleness

7.0

A state of being small, weak, or not important

focuses on lack of strength force or vigor rather than unimportance or small size

frailness

vslittleness

5.1

Weak health that often appears in older people

refers to a general lack of strength force or vigor beyond health or age

slenderness

vslittleness

5.4

A small amount that is not enough

emphasizes low strength force or vigor rather than merely being insufficient in amount

slackness

vslittleness

5.8

A state of low energy that makes you move slowly

refers to having little strength force or vigor rather than laziness or low activity

Antonyms

power

∞ 1.0

Physical or mental strength to do something

strength

∞ 1.2

Physical or mental power a person has to act

How Strong

might

35 3.5

strength

∞ 1.2

littleness

8.0

frailty

3 5.0

Surface Forms

littleness singular

littlenesses plural

Morphology

littleness = little (semi-transparent) = little + ness

The sense 'weakness or feebleness' can be derived from 'little' meaning 'small in degree' + '-ness', but it requires applying 'little' to force or vigor rather than size, which may not be immediately obvious.

Etymology

Littleness comes from little meaning 'small', and is also used to mean 'small strength' or 'weakness'. So saying someone has littleness of voice or force means they have little power.