英和和英

名詞

parvanimity (countable and uncountable, plural parvanimities)

1. (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

同意語

• small-mindedness

反意語

• magnanimity

参照

• “parvanimity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.