pettiness

Other forms of pettiness

plural

pettinesses·

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.

Questions about pettiness

What does pettiness mean?

pettiness means "narrowness of mind or ideas or views". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pettiness?

pettiness has 3 syllables: pet-ti-ness. The stress falls on "pet". In IPA it is /ˈpɛtinəs/.

What is another word for pettiness?

Close synonyms include triviality, slightness, puniness, littleness, smallness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pettiness a common word?

pettiness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.