pettiness

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun pettiness has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

pettinessn. 
     The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

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