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Narrowness   /nˈɛroʊnəs/   Listen
Narrowness

noun
1.
The property of being narrow; having little width.
2.
An inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior.  Synonym: narrow-mindedness.
3.
A restriction of range or scope.  "The attraction of the book is precisely its narrowness of focus" , "Frustrated by the narrowness of people's horizons"
4.
A small margin.  Synonyms: narrow margin, slimness.  "The landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote"





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... Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, and Lauderdale, and they were the great instruments of his tyranny. None of them had the talents or audacity of Strafford, or the narrowness and bigotry of Laud; but their counsels were injurious ...
— A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon - For the Use of Schools and Colleges • John Lord
... kind—except the illustrated ones—but what relied more or less upon prurient matter to tickle the fancies of prurient minds. Besides, my idea is that, just at present, the Board Schools tend to a certain hardness and narrowness of character, which is perhaps softened down by the development by these papers of the lighter side of human nature. Tit-Bits, I have reason to know, has in many cases induced the study of some science or literature on the part of a man or boy who has read some interesting 'tit-bit' on one of these ...
— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... have thrilled and impressed any other man in his present position. They seemed to intensify the hopelessness of his own situation. He had a slight feeling of creepiness about the spine as he thought of the narrowness of that escape—though, of course, the policeman might not have identified him. But some day or other it was bound to come—that accidental confrontation ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees
... and instantaneous steering of the bicycle, combined with its narrowness, counteract, to a great extent, the advantage which the tricyclist has of being able to stop so much more quickly, for the bicyclist can "dodge" past a thing for which the rider of the three-wheeler ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 • Various
... been annoyances to her ever since she could remember. Their continual nagging had fretted her, their constant restraint had chafed her, their narrowness had cramped her. To-day she saw them from a new point ...
— Master of the Vineyard • Myrtle Reed


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