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Noun: pettiness  pe-tee-nus
  1. Narrowness of mind or ideas or views
    - small-mindedness
     
  2. The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
    - triviality, slightness, puniness
     
  3. Lack of generosity in trifling matters
    - littleness, smallness

Derived forms: pettinesses

See also: petty

Type of: closeness, meanness, minginess, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness, unimportance

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