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
She had dark, flashing eyes, pearly teeth, full ruby lips and feet and hands that were of fairylike diminutiveness, as well as miracles of grace and dainty shapeliness.
From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Flagg, Edmund
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, Vol. 2 by Morley, Henry
But he was fierce-looking for all his diminutiveness.
From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
This may account for the flatness of views, and the diminutiveness of objects.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
