narrowness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a restriction of range or scope

   The problem with achievement tests is the narrowness they impose on students.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   a small margin

4. 4
   noun

   the property of being narrow

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

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