minuteness
1. the property of being very small in size - hence the minuteness of detail in the painting • Syn: diminutiveness, petiteness, tininess, weeness • Derivationally related forms: wee (for: weeness), tiny (for: tininess), petite (for: petiteness), minute, diminutive (for: diminutiveness) • Hypernyms: smallness, littleness 2. great precision; painstaking attention to details - he examined the essay with the greatest minuteness • Derivationally related forms: minute • Hypernyms: exactness, exactitude
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