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Slightness vs Narrowness - What's the difference?

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Slightness is a related term of narrowness.


As nouns the difference between slightness and narrowness

is that slightness is the property of being slight, smallness, petiteness while narrowness is (uncountable) the state of being narrow.

slightness

English

Noun

(slightnesses)
  • The property of being slight, smallness, petiteness
  • :Poor nutrition explained his slightness .

    • narrowness

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) the state of being narrow
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , presently, then, I felt the stiff insertion between the yielding, divided lips of the wound, now open for life; where the narrowness no longer put me to intolerable pain, and afforded my lover no more difficulty than what heighten'd his pleasure, in the strict embrace of that tender, warm sheath, round the instrument it was so delicately adjusted to}}
  • (countable) a constriction

    • Antonyms

    *(state of being narrow) broadness, wideness