small indefinite amount vs scintilla

scintilla vs small indefinite amount

small indefinite amount and scintilla both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
small indefinite amount	Yes	No	No	No
scintilla	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, scintilla is a hyponym of small indefinite amount; that is, scintilla is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than small indefinite amount:

small indefinite amount: an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
scintilla: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount

Other hyponyms of small indefinite amount include helping, portion, serving, mouthful, taste, crumb, dab, splash, splatter, bit, spot, hair's-breadth, hair, hairsbreadth, whisker, modicum, scattering, sprinkling, shoe string, shoestring, spray, spraying, nose, step, stone's throw, little, schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik, shade, tad, lower limit, minimum, morsel, handful, smattering, couple, drib, driblet, drop, dollop, dreg, diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat, nip, shot, hint, suggestion, tint, trace, iota, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit, tot, hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch.

small indefinite amount (noun)	scintilla (noun)
an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude	a sparkling glittering particle
	a tiny or scarcely detectable amount

Difference between small indefinite amount and scintilla

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