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Slightness vs Penuriousness - What's the difference?

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Slightness is a related term of penuriousness.


As nouns the difference between slightness and penuriousness

is that slightness is the property of being slight, smallness, petiteness while penuriousness is the quality of being penurious.

slightness

English

Noun

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

    • penuriousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being penurious.
  • :In Dickens' ''A Christmas Carol'', the character Ebenezer Scrooge is renowned for his penuriousness.

    • Synonyms

    *(quality of being penurious ): cheapness, frugality, miserliness, thriftiness