parvanimity

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin parvus (“little”) + animus (“mind”).

Noun edit

parvanimity (countable and uncountable, plural parvanimities)

(now rare) The state or quality of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness.
- 1829, Thomas De Quincey, “Professor Wilson”, in Edinburgh Literary Gazette:
  I coin this word parvanimity as an adequate antithesis to magnanimity

Synonyms edit

small-mindedness

Antonyms edit

magnanimity

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “parvanimity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)