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
It presented its side and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
The diminutiveness of the nurse-perambulators is the most surprising part of the performance.
From The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell
She was seated on a sofa at the far end of the room when Seymour Michael was shown in, and the first thing that struck her was his diminutiveness.
From From One Generation to Another by Henry Seton Merriman
Passers-by frequently glanced at it and thought it a nice little house whose amusing diminutiveness was a sort of attraction.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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