smallness

Other forms of smallness

plural

smallnesses·

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 smallness

What does smallness mean?

smallness means "the property of having a relatively small size". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in smallness?

smallness has 2 syllables: small-ness. The stress falls on "small". In IPA it is /ˈsmɔlnəs/.

What is another word for smallness?

Close synonyms include littleness, littleness, pettiness, littleness. 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.

What is the opposite of smallness?

The recorded antonyms are largeness.

Is smallness a common word?

smallness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.