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Webster 1913 Edition

Pettiness

Pet′ti-ness

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Noun.

The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pettiness

PET'TINESS

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Noun.

[from petty.] Smallness; littleness.

Definition 2024

pettiness

pettiness

English

Noun

pettiness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural pettinesses)

The quality of being petty.
The pettiness of the accounting department asking me to save a receipt from a fast-food restaurant was absurd.
A petty behaviour, attitude, etc.