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

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 Krueger, Wm. G.

My general diminutiveness of person has always been more than compensated, I think, by a corresponding magnitude of mind; but one is none the less sensitive to wayside ribaldry.

From Aliens by McFee, William

The diminutiveness of the nurse-perambulators is the most surprising part of the performance.

From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival

But he was fierce-looking for all his diminutiveness.

From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)