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

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

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

If petty larceny be his offence, I exhort you, do not confound meanness of crime with diminutiveness of stature.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

It presented its side and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence