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Narrowness

noun

The property of being narrow; having little width.

An inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior. Synonym: narrow-mindedness.

A restriction of range or scope. "The attraction of the book is precisely its narrowness of focus" , "Frustrated by the narrowness of people's horizons"

A small margin. Synonyms: narrow margin, slimness. "The landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote"

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"Narrowness" Quotes from Famous Books

... the fragmentary utterances of stupor patients, we are surprised by the narrowness and uniformity of the ideational content. It seems to be confined to thoughts of death or closely related conceptions. Thirty-five out of thirty-six consecutive cases at one time or another referred literally to death. It is commonest during the onset, as all but five of these patients ...

— Benign Stupors - A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type • August Hoch

... their blood, and all youth's furies hot upon them. And surely in that other summons there was, besides, the thrill of romance, such as the young love. There was the trumpeting to high adventure. Few there were to touch, few to remember, even the saintliest life lived in a noble narrowness, a noble silence. But the word of truth, spoken from no matter what obscurity, will rise and ring round the world, and remain forever in the pattern of men's thought. Here, indeed, was a 'bliss ...

— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... Confucius springs, first of all, from the narrowness and definiteness of his doctrine. He was no transcendentalist, and never meddled with supramundane things. His teaching was of the earth, earthy; it dealt entirely with the common relations of life, and the Golden Rule he must necessarily have stumbled upon, as the ...

— Chinese Literature • Anonymous

... to think of the power that strong conviction combined with extreme narrowness of mind gives a man possessing prestige. It is none the less necessary that these conditions should be satisfied for a man to ignore obstacles and display strength of will in a high measure. Crowds instinctively recognise in ...

— The Crowd • Gustave le Bon

... difference that passes between this naturalism and the realism of the English and Spanish; and he goes somewhat further than I should go in condemning it. "The French naturalism represents only a moment, and an insignificant part of life." . . . It is characterized by sadness and narrowness. The prototype of this literature is the 'Madame Bovary' of Flaubert. I am an admirer of this novelist, and especially of this novel; but often in thinking of it I have said, How dreary would literature be if it were no more than this! There is something antipathetic ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

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