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Noun: slightness  slIt-nus
  1. The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
    - pettiness, triviality, puniness
     
  2. Smallness of stature
    - delicacy
     
  3. The property of an attractively thin person
    - slenderness, slimness

Derived forms: slightnesses

See also: slight

Type of: leanness, littleness, smallness, spareness, thinness, unimportance

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