Crossword clues for puniness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puniness \Pu"ni*ness\, n. The quality or state of being puny; littleness; pettiness; feebleness.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being puny
WordNet
n. smallness of stature [syn: runtiness, stuntedness]
Usage examples of "puniness".
That was why Ponter’s people still had the huge strength of apes, rather than the puniness of humans.
Everything is supposed to take on a new perspective from this oasis of humanity out in space -- the vastness of the universe and the puniness of Man, and that kind of thing.
It was a recurrent feeling with me, one that I would always forget until I again realized the same thing: the puniness of humanity against the immensity of that thing-in-itself which I had seen reflected in the mirror.
We lost sight of them at once, but that was small consolation, knowing they were in the next valley, and realizing the puniness of the best speed we could manage in comparison with theirs.