diminutiveness
Example Sentences
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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
They belong to what is sometimes known as Micronesia, from the extreme diminutiveness of the land masses.
From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White
It presented its side and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
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 Henry Morley
The water, building terraces and battlements, reflected enough light to impress me with the diminutiveness of the boat, set in the vastness on which it floated.
From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
