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say it: NER-oh-nuhs
narrowness is a noun meaning "the property of being narrow; having little width". It carries 4 recorded senses.
an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior
a restriction of range or scope
“the problem with achievement tests is the narrowness they impose on students”
“the attraction of the book is precisely its narrowness of focus”
“frustrated by the narrowness of people's horizons”
a small margin
“the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory”
“the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for narrowness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.