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pettiness

pettiness noun: the quality of being petty.

Noun

pettiness (countable and uncountable, plural pettinesses)

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

pettiness meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada

pettiness in Tamil

சிறியமனம், அற்பத்தனம்

pettiness in Bengali

তুচ্ছতার গুণ, তুচ্ছ আচরণ, দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি ইত্যাদি

pettiness in Kannada

ಸಣ್ಣತನ

Forms of pettiness

pluralpettinesses

Origin of pettiness

From petty + -ness.

Questions about pettiness

What does pettiness mean?
Pettiness means the quality of being petty.
What is pettiness in Tamil?
Pettiness in Tamil is சிறியமனம், அற்பத்தனம். See Pettiness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pettiness?
Pettiness is a noun.
What is the plural of pettiness?
The plural of pettiness is pettinesses.

Words near pettiness in the dictionary

  1. pettiloon
  2. pettiloons
  3. pettily
  4. Pettinato
  5. Pettinatos
  6. pettiness
  7. pettinesses
  8. petting
  9. petting parties
  10. petting party
  11. petting the kitty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pettiness (page history and authors); pettiness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pettiness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pettiness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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