[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pettiness \pet"tiness\, n.
   the quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness;
   meanness.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

pettiness
     n 1: narrowness of mind or ideas or views
     2: the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
        syn: triviality, slightness
     3: lack of generosity in trifling matters
see also:
triviality slightness 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

118 moby thesaurus words for "pettiness":
   abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, authoritarianism,
   baseness, beggarliness, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders,
   closed mind, contemptibility, contemptibleness, cramped ideas,
   crumminess, daintiness, debasement, deficiency, degradation,
   delicacy, depravity, despicableness, diminutiveness, enormity,
   execrableness, exiguity, exiguousness, failure, fanaticism,
   fewness, foulness, fulsomeness, grossness, heinousness,
   hideboundness, illiberality, immateriality, imperfection,
   inadequacy, incompetence, inconsequence, inconsequentiality,
   inconsiderableness, indifference, ineffectuality, inferiority,
   insignificance, insufficiency, insularism, insularity, irrelevance,
   little-mindedness, littleness, low priority, lowness,
   maladroitness, marginality, meagerness, mean mind, meanness,
   mediocrity, minginess, minuteness, miserableness, moderateness,
   monstrousness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness,
   narrowness, nearsightedness, nefariousness, negligibility,
   niggardliness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, odium theologicum,
   paltriness, parochialism, petty mind, picayune, picayunishness,
   pokiness, poorness, provincialism, puniness, purblindness,
   rankness, scabbiness, scantiness, scrubbiness, scruffiness,
   scumminess, scurviness, secondariness, shabbiness, shoddiness,
   shortsightedness, shut mind, slightness, smallness, squalor,
   stinginess, straitlacedness, stuffiness, subnormality, tininess,
   triviality, uncatholicity, ungenerousness, unimportance,
   unimpressiveness, unmagnanimousness, unnoteworthiness,
   unskillfulness, vileness, vulgarity, wretchedness

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