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Definition: Slightness |
SlightnessNoun1. The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous. 2. Smallness of stature. 3. The property of an attractively thin person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slightness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references) |
Synonyms: SlightnessSynonyms: delicacy (n), pettiness (n), slenderness (n), slimness (n), triviality (n). (additional references) |
| "Slightness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Slightness" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "slightness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vähäpätöisyys (insignificance, trivial nature, unimportance), lievyys (leniency, lightness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | petitesse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Geringfügigkeit (insignificance, littleness, paltriness, petiteness, pettiness, triviality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ελαφρότησ (flimsiness, flippancy, frivolity, levity, resilience, volatileness, weakmindedness), ελαφρότητα (airiness, flimsiness, flippancy, frivolity, levity, lightness, resilience, volatileness, weakmindedness), λεπτότητα (comity, consideration, daintiness, delicacy, fineness, flimsiness, gauziness, niceness, nicety, polish, refinement, sleaziness, slenderness, slimness, subtlety, tact, tactfulness, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness, ticklishness, waspishness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | esiguit (exiguity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shangid (emaciation, lankiness, leanness, slenderness, slimness), keylid (fineness, narrowness, slenderness, thinness, waist, waist of instrument, weakness, weakness of mixture), feoisid, eddrymid (flightiness, giddiness, levity, lightness, shallowness), begganid (littleness, smallness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ightnessslay незначительность (exiguity, insignificance, insignificancy, tenuousness, triviality). (various references) apice. (various references) narinlik (fragility, frailness, frailty, slenderness, slimness, tenderness), kuvvetsizlik (atony, feebleness, lack of power, slenderness, weakness), incelik (civility, courtesy, daintiness, delicacy, discretion, elaborateness, fineness, finesse, fragility, grace, gracefulness, keenness, niceness, nicety, point, polish, politeness, refinement, slenderness, slimness, subtility, subtlety, tact, thinness, touch), hafiflik (airiness, frailness, giddiness, lightness, looseness, slowness, thinness), önemsizlik (indifference, insignificance, insignificancy, lightness, littleness, paltriness, puniness, smallness, triviality, unimportance). (various references) sự sơ s i (sketchiness), sự không đáng kể, tầm vóc mảnh khảnh sự qua loa, tính mỏng mảnh (fragility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "slightness": slightnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Slightness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alrightness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "slightness" (pronounced 'Slight"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-l-n-s-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: lightness, nightless, sightless, stingless. | |
-2 letters: glistens, lightens, shingles, sighless, singlets, sleights. | |
-3 letters: english, enlists, glisten, hitless, ingests, legists, lengths, lighten, listens, nighest, shingle, signets, silents, singles, singlet, sinless, sithens, sleighs, sleight, slights, tingles, tinsels. | |
-4 letters: eights, elints, enlist, gentil, glints, gneiss, heists, hinges, hisses, ingest, ingles, inlets, insets, islets, istles, legist, legits, length, lights. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-l-n-s-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ghastliness, ghostliness, lightnesses, sightliness. | |
+2 letters: slightnesses. | |
+3 letters: flightinesses, ghastlinesses, ghostlinesses, lengthinesses, lightfastness, lightsomeness, sightlessness, sightlinesses, sprightliness, unsightliness. | |
+4 letters: almightinesses, knightlinesses, rightfulnesses, sprightfulness, weightlessness. | |
+5 letters: delightednesses, disestablishing, frightfulnesses, lightfastnesses, lightsomenesses, longsightedness, sightlessnesses, silversmithings, sprightlinesses, steeplechasings, unsightlinesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 69 67 68 74 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. .. --. .... - -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l i g h t n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0069 0067 0068 0074 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53787573748680718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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