diminutiveness

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Proust had to outgrow the habits of diminutiveness, without sacrificing a love of nuance and detail, to become himself.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 3, 2015

The Jipsons confined their invitations to the few, very few genteel of the family, and even the diminutiveness of the number invited was decimated by Mr. Smith, who was permitted to review the parties invited.

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

Consequently he sits tall, and with the peculiar erectness of head and neck, his diminutiveness disappears.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

Sand-martins differ from their congeners in the diminutiveness of their size, and in their colour, which is what is usually called a mouse-colour.

From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert

Out of her diminutiveness, out of her leanness, out of her extraordinary litheness, little Eve Edgarton stared up speculatively at Barton's great hulking helplessness.

From Little Eve Edgarton by Crosby, Raymond Moreau