puniness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being puny; littleness; pettiness; feebleness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

pettiness triviality slightness runtiness stuntedness fault deficiency defect indifference delicacy imperfection fragility insignificance infirmity frailty

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power might energy bigness brawn drive

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smallness littleness unimportance

joke

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose. Norman Cousins

puniest punily punim punish punish for punish severely