Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SMALL'NESS, n.

1. Littleness of size or extent; littleness of quantity; as, the smallness of a fly or of a horse; the smallness of a hill.
2. Littleness in degree; as, the smallness of trouble or pain.
3. Littleness in force or strength; weakness; as, smallness of mind or intellectual powers.
4. Fineness; softness; melodiousness; as, the smallness of a female voice.
5. Littleness in amount or value; as, the smallness of the sum.
6. Littleness of importance; inconsiderableness; as, the smallness of an affair.