tininess
- a word derived from tiny.
Example Sentences
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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
He is comically adorable, and his tininess makes visceral the siblings’ vulnerability.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2018
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
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
