Usually means: Small-mindedness over trivial matters.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. pettiness: Merriam-Webster
  2. pettiness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pettiness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pettiness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pettiness, pettiness: Wordnik
  6. pettiness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pettiness: Wiktionary
  8. Pettiness, pettiness: Dictionary.com
  9. pettiness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Pettiness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. pettiness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. pettiness: Rhymezone
  13. Pettiness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pettiness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. pettiness: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pettiness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. pettiness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pettiness: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. pettiness: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pettiness: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pettiness)

▸ noun:  The quality of being petty.
▸ noun:  A petty behaviour, attitude, etc.

Similar:
slightness, triviality, pettishness, petiteness, nitpickiness, parvanimity, cattiness, pickiness, pissiness, finickiness, more...

Opposite:
generosity, magnanimity, largesse

Types:
trivial, silly, foolish, ridiculous, ludicrous, inane, idiotic, more...

Adjectives:
such, own, human, much, personal, certain, very, bureaucratic, sheer, mere, ludicrous



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Similar:
slightness, triviality, pettishness, petiteness, nitpickiness, parvanimity, cattiness, pickiness, pissiness, finickiness, more...

Opposite:
generosity, magnanimity, largesse

Types:
trivial, silly, foolish, ridiculous, ludicrous, inane, idiotic, more...

Adjectives:
such, own, human, much, personal, certain, very, bureaucratic, sheer, mere, ludicrous



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