narrowness

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Definition of narrowness

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)The state of being narrow.
    “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”
    ““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.””
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noun

  1. (uncountable)The state of being narrow.
    “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”
    ““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.””
  2. (countable)A constriction; a narrow passage or place; an instance or aspect of being narrow, or having a limited scope or extent.

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Etymology

From Middle English narwenesse; equivalent to narrow + -ness.

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