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 by Gilbert White
"In addition to the general impression of his diminutiveness and fragility, one was struck with the peculiar beauty of his head and forehead, rising disproportionately high over his small wrinkly visage and gentle deep-set eyes."
From De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars by William Edward Simonds
The diminutiveness of these small rooms admitted of their being infinitely multiplied.
From The Wonders of Pompeii by Marc Monnier
Nature has wisely established a compensation to make amends for the diminutiveness of organs by rapidity of movement, and has, consequently, furnished the animal with the necessary power to produce this rapidity.
From Lecture on Artificial Flight Given by request at the Academy of Natural Sciences by Wm. G. Krueger
