pettiness

CIDE DICTIONARY

pettiness, n. 

 The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

pettiness

abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, authoritarianism, baseness, beggarliness, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, closed mind, contemptibility, contemptibleness, cramped ideas, crumminess, daintiness, debasement, deficiency, degradation, delicacy, depravity, despicableness, diminutiveness, enormity, execrableness, exiguity, exiguousness, failure, fanaticism, fewness, foulness, fulsomeness, grossness, heinousness, hideboundness, illiberality, immateriality, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, indifference, ineffectuality, inferiority, insignificance, insufficiency, insularism, insularity, irrelevance, little-mindedness, littleness, low priority, lowness, maladroitness, marginality, meagerness, mean mind, meanness, mediocrity, minginess, minuteness, miserableness, moderateness, monstrousness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, nefariousness, negligibility, niggardliness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, odium theologicum, paltriness, parochialism, petty mind, picayune, picayunishness, pokiness, poorness, provincialism, puniness, purblindness, rankness, scabbiness, scantiness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, secondariness, shabbiness, shoddiness, shortsightedness, shut mind, slightness, smallness, squalor, stinginess, straitlacedness, stuffiness, subnormality, tininess, triviality, uncatholicity, ungenerousness, unimportance, unimpressiveness, unmagnanimousness, unnoteworthiness, unskillfulness, vileness, vulgarity, wretchedness