littleness

名詞

可算名詞不可算名詞

The property of being little, smallness. / Smallness of spirit; pettiness.

日本語の意味

小ささ（物や存在のサイズが小さい状態） / 狭量さ（心が狭く、こだわりや小ささを感じる性質）

Despite the littleness of her achievement, she felt proud because it represented the start of a long journey.

成果の小ささにもかかわらず、それが長い旅の始まりを示すものだったため、彼女は誇りに思った。

意味（1）

The property of being little, smallness.

His littleness didn't bother him, except when he needed to get something off the top shelf.

意味（2）

Smallness of spirit; pettiness.

Court, city, church are all shops of smallwares;

All having blown to sparks their noble fire,

And drawn their sound gold ingot into wire;

All trying by a love of littleness

To make abridgments, and to draw to less

Even that nothing which at first we were;

littlenesses

（ plural ）