Narrowness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Narrowness is a noun meaning (uncountable) The state of being narrow.
Meaning
(uncountable) The state of being narrow.
More Meanings
- (countable) A constriction; a narrow passage or place; an instance or aspect of being narrow, or having a limited scope or extent.
Example Sentences
“You will understand me when I say that it was a deadly life for a girl brought up as I had been. The narrowness, the deadly monotony of it, almost drove me mad.”
presently, then, I felt the stiff insertion between the yielding, divided lips of the wound, now open for life; where the narrowness no longer put me to intolerable pain, and afforded my lover no more difficulty than what heighten'd his pleasure, in the strict embrace of that tender, warm sheath, round the instrument it was so delicately adjusted to
Word Forms
- narrownesses
Antonyms for narrowness
Common opposites include broadness, wideness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tightness, shortness, closeness, strength, shortfall, narrowingness.
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