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- US Pronunciation
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- [tahy-nee]
- /ˈtaɪ ni/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [tahy-nee]
- /ˈtaɪ ni/
Definitions of tininess word
- adjective tininess very small; minute; wee. 1
- noun tininess the quality or condition of being tiny 0
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Origin of tininess
First appearance:
before 1590 One of the 37% oldest English words
1590-1600; late Middle English tine very small (< ?) + -y1
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Parts of speech for Tininess
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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tininess popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 87% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.
tininess usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for tininess
noun tininess
- minuteness — extremely small, as in size, amount, extent, or degree: minute differences.
- compactness — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- diminutiveness — The state or quality of being diminutive.
- littleness — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
Antonyms for tininess
noun tininess
- amplitude — In physics, the amplitude of a sound wave or electrical signal is its strength.
- bigness — the fact or condition of being large in size, extent, amount, etc.
- bulk — You can refer to something's bulk when you want to emphasize that it is very large.
- bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
- dimensionality — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
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