tininess

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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

A creature's helplessness and tininess also determines whether or not we find it cute.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2022

Newborns of any species tend to be delightful, and the piglets — in their tininess and charming ungainliness — prove natural-born scene stealers.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2020

The extreme tininess of these babies might seem unusual—panda mothers typically weigh 900 times more than their newborns, while human mothers are only around 20 times heavier than their babies.

From National Geographic • Aug. 28, 2015

There is a curious inverse relationship in modern physics between the tininess of the thing being sought and the scale of facilities required to do the searching.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson