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

When Leia puts her hand in Obi-Wan's, my own near-10-year-old gasped at the tininess.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2022

Children are thought to be such good gymnasts in part because they are smaller and lighter, yet tininess is only partly a biomechanical necessity for success.

From New York Times • May 4, 2021

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