SLIGHTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slightness mean? 

• SLIGHTNESS (noun)
  The noun SLIGHTNESS has 3 senses:

1. the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous

2. smallness of stature

3. the property of an attractively thin person

  Familiarity information: SLIGHTNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLIGHTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

pettiness; puniness; slightness; triviality

Hypernyms ("slightness" is a kind of...):

unimportance (the quality of not being important or worthy of note)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slightness"):

joke (a triviality not to be taken seriously)

Derivation:

slight (lacking substance or significance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Smallness of stature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

delicacy; slightness

Hypernyms ("slightness" is a kind of...):

littleness; smallness (the property of having a relatively small size)

Derivation:

slight (being of delicate or slender build)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The property of an attractively thin person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

slenderness; slightness; slimness

Hypernyms ("slightness" is a kind of...):

leanness; spareness; thinness (the property of having little body fat)

Derivation:

slight (being of delicate or slender build)