Hypertext Webster Gateway: "slightness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Slightness \Slight"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness;
feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence;
indifference; disregard.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

slightness
n 1: the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
[syn: {pettiness}, {triviality}]
2: smallness of stature [syn: {delicacy}]
3: the property of an attractively thin person [syn: {slenderness},
{slimness}]


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