Narrowness
['næronɪs]
Definition
(noun.) the property of being narrow; having little width; 'the narrowness of the road'.
(noun.) a restriction of range or scope; 'the problem with achievement tests is the narrowness they impose on students'; 'the attraction of the book is precisely its narrowness of focus'; 'frustrated by the narrowness of people's horizons'.
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Definition
(n.) The condition or quality of being narrow.
Editor: Mervin
Examples
- The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In small towns and country villages, on account of the narrowness of the market, trade cannot always be extended as stock extends. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I wasand with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It shows the sciences in their interrelations, and saves the student from narrowness and premature specialization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The smallness of the rooms above and below, indeed, and the narrowness of the passage and staircase, struck her beyond her imagination. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Men are not able radically to cure, either in themselves or others, that narrowness of soul, which makes them prefer the present to the remote. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The narrowness of American political issues is a fixation upon instruments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The narrowness of the Isthmus naturally suggested the cutting of a waterway through it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It ends, in spite of your confounded English narrowness and prejudice, in my being perfectly happy and comfortable. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Benjamin still had a hankering for the sea, but he recognized in the printing-office and access to books other means of escape from the narrowness of the Boston of 1720. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Oh-- she exclaimed, as if terrified by the narrowness of their escape. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They had been taught to shun all forms of narrowness and intolerance. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The narrowness of view, which to ourselves appears so singular, was to him natural, if not unavoidable. Plato. The Republic.
- They are never well, and their minds and views shrink to wondrous narrowness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- These qualities compensate, in some measure, for the narrowness of available opportunities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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