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

This may account for the flatness of views, and the diminutiveness of objects.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

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

Historically they are the culmination of a development toward diminutiveness, for in their early days viols were larger than they are now.

From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Krehbiel, Henry Edward