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puniness|ˈpjuːnɪnɪs| Also 8 punyness. [f. puny a. + -ness.] The state or quality of being puny; littleness and feebleness; pettiness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Puniness, Weakliness, Tenderness, Unthrivingness, spoken of Children. 1740Cheyne Ess. Regimen 66 The Frequency of nervous..Distempers now,..the Stuntedness, Punyness and Feebleness, so conspicuous among the better Sort. 1871Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. Ser. i. (1878) 175 The same sense of the puniness of man in the centre of a cruel and frowning universe. |