Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being minute; extreme smallness; fineness.
- n. Attention to small things; critical exactness.
Wiktionary
- n. The property of being minute.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being minute.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the property of being very small in size
- n. great precision; painstaking attention to details
Examples
“Rienzi,' and writes prose better than poetry, and transcends rather in Dutch minuteness and high finishing, than in Italian ideality and passion.”
“Our Village 'than of' Rienzi, 'and writes prose better than poetry, and transcends rather in Dutch minuteness and high finishing, than in Italian ideality and passion.”
“Recalling our minuteness in God's wide and wonderful creation only underlines our central role in God's plan for the salvation of the whole world.”
“This is due to a certain encyclopaedic minuteness which is the peculiar property of German industry.”
“Letter of his to any member of his Family (and he wrote to one or other of them almost every day) in which he does not refer specifically to her state of health; and when she is at all seriously ill he gives details of her symptoms with a minuteness which is quite pathetic.”
“Recalling our minuteness in God’s wide and wonderful creation only underlines our central role in God’s plan for the salvation of the whole world.”
“The impressions must have been deep, since, writing in advanced age, he describes their personal appearance and their different idiosyncrasies with a minuteness which is at the same time a remarkable testimony to his precocious powers of observation.”
“Her death, and the respect paid to her memory, are related with a circumstantial minuteness which is truly honourable to her character.”
“limitation of abode,' and the 'minuteness' ascribed to Brahman, are merely for the purpose of meditation.”
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
“I'm not exactly ashamed of this, but neither do I want someone beholding its hugeness every day, straining his philosophical faculties to make sense of his own minuteness compared to it.”
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
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Smallness
Nouns meaning smallness or small amount
exiguity, exiguousness, tenuity, diminutiveness, tenuousness, minuteness, parcity, paucity, parvitude, parvity, modicum, pusillage and 1 more...
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