Lit'tle-ness, n.

n. The state or quality of being little; smallness of size or bulk; meanness; want of grandeur; as, littleness of size, of conceptions, of manners, of duration, of power, and the like.

Synonyms— Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness. — LITTLENESS, MEANNESS. Littleness and meanness both produce paltry actions; but littleness is narrow from ignorance or timidity, and meanness from a sordid, unprincipled selfishness. Littleness dissembles for want of spirit; meanness for want of honesty. Littleness is the reverse of magnanimity, and meanness of generosity. H. Taylor.