minuteness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the property of being very small in size

   Hence the minuteness of detail in the painting.

2. 2
   noun

   The property of being minute.

   1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados Beedel picked up a loose sheet of paper and scored it heavily with a plan of the neighbourhood as he explained the position with some minuteness.

3. 3
   noun

   Something very tiny.

   Hitherto I have hoarded up mementoes and monuments of the past; been a worshiper of all heirlooms; a fond filer away of letters, locks of hair, bits of ribbon, flowers, and the thousand-and-one minutenesses which love and memory think they sanctify:—but it is forever over now!

4. 4
   noun

   great precision

From minute + -ness.

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