tininess
Example Sentences
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“Be aware of the tininess of yourself,” he advises.
From National Geographic • Dec. 15, 2023
A grain of sand is generally used for expressing tininess, or insignificance.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2023
The cartoon is labeled as “not even kind of sort of vaguely close to scale,” which manages to convey tininess that is inherently difficult to grasp.
From Scientific American • Oct. 22, 2023
He has plenty of poetic company, all seduced by the color, beauty and teeny tininess of the hummingbird but failed to notice the ferocity burning in its rapidly beating heart.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2019
It is of course the abundance and extreme durability of atoms that makes them so useful, and the tininess that makes them so hard to detect and understand.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
