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

From his diminutiveness, he went by the name of Boat Plug among the seamen.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman

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 White, Trumbull

Accordingly, I stayed in his bedroom, where I had found him writing, and he went into his sitting-room, of which, from the diminutiveness of his domicile, I commanded a full view, sit where I would.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida

I knew him instantly from the pictures I had seen of him, but was surprised at the diminutiveness of his person.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker