Used in a Sentence

smallness

How to use smallness in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for smallness.

Editorial note

The only thing it doesn't give me is vims smallness but since I rarely exit the editor that doesn't effect my workflow.

Examples12
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

the property of having a relatively small size

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of smallness gathered in one view.

noun

the property of having a relatively small size

noun

the property of being a relatively small amount; "he was attracted by the smallness of the taxes"

noun

the property of having relatively little strength or vigor; "the smallness of her voice"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for smallness.

noun

the property of having a relatively small size

noun

the property of being a relatively small amount; "he was attracted by the smallness of the taxes"

noun

the property of having relatively little strength or vigor; "the smallness of her voice"

Example sentences

1

The only thing it doesn't give me is vims smallness but since I rarely exit the editor that doesn't effect my workflow.

2

Blurting out everything at once is too hard to distinguish from passive agressive smallness.

3

I work with web-based systems"Web-based systems tend toward smallness and/or flatness, with fairly straight execution paths through the system.

4

Yep, that's not a bad value, but $30 extra is still quite significant to us, and the smallness/lightness and battery life of the Chromebooks is hard to beat.

5

I found that although Scala is a nice language in many ways, the smallness of the community prevented me from adopting it big time for most work.

6

Likewise an American would never understand the smallness of being, say, a Luxembourg citizen and travelling to France within a day.

7

You'll get the cool where you want the cool, and you'll save the whole compressor, evaporator, pump system that regular fridges are. Another thing that's cool, but entirely off topic is acoustic levitation, but it'd neither add to smallness nor convenience of the tap.

8

A toddler may have never seen an elephant before, but it may have seen cars, trucks, birds, dogs, people, trees, skies, buildings etc, giving it concepts for bigness, smallness, aliveness, humanness and much else.

9

So when Jobs dropped that iPod prototype in water to prove that it could be smaller still, this helped the iPod's success largely because Jobs was right about the smallness, not because he berated his engineers.

10

That's funny because when I try to switch from my Galaxy Nexus to my wife's iPhone 4s, I get annoyed with the smallness of the screen for reading, and the sharp edges are less comfortable in my pocket than the Nexus.

11

Startups and small companies are amazingly stupid; the standard playbook for creating a business is do things big companies can't that you can because you're small, ie make your smallness a positive instead of a hindrance.

12

His ideas are great!There must be a way to finance the planning and construction of a neighborhood along these lines, or finance the political effort it would take to designate a zone "traditional".In an immediate sense, we can encourage trad neighborhoods by asking city councils to slightly change laws that allow smallness and interestingness to take hold.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use smallness in a sentence?

The only thing it doesn't give me is vims smallness but since I rarely exit the editor that doesn't effect my workflow.

What does smallness mean?

the property of having a relatively small size

What part of speech is smallness?

smallness is commonly used as noun.