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

She had dark, flashing eyes, pearly teeth, full ruby lips and feet and hands that were of fairylike diminutiveness, as well as miracles of grace and dainty shapeliness.

From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Flagg, Edmund

The Church, here, is from its diminutiveness, quite an object of curiosity; and the stranger will also notice THE WELL, on the road-side; but the Villa and Cottage are both secluded from public view.

From Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island. by Brannon, George

The diminutiveness of these small rooms admitted of their being infinitely multiplied.

From The Wonders of Pompeii by Monnier, Marc

Out of her diminutiveness, out of her leanness, out of her extraordinary litheness, little Eve Edgarton stared up speculatively at Barton's great hulking helplessness.

From Little Eve Edgarton by Crosby, Raymond Moreau