Definition of Minuteness

1. Noun. The property of being very small in size. "Hence the minuteness of detail in the painting"

Exact synonyms: Diminutiveness, Petiteness, Tininess, Weeness
Generic synonyms: Littleness, Smallness
Derivative terms: Diminutive, Minute, Petite, Tiny, Wee

2. Noun. Great precision; painstaking attention to details. "He examined the essay with the greatest minuteness"
Generic synonyms: Exactitude, Exactness
Derivative terms: Minute

Definition of Minuteness

1. n. The quality of being minute.

Definition of Minuteness

1. Noun. The property of being minute. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Minuteness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Minuteness

minute book
minute gun
minute hand
minute hands
minute mutant
minute of angle
minute of arc
minute output
minute repeater
minute steak
minute volume
minuted
minutely
minuteman
minutemen
minuteness
minutenesses
minuter
minutes
minutes of angle
minuteslong
minutest
minutia
minutiae
minutial
minuting
minutiæ
minx
minxes
minxish

Literary usage of Minuteness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Romance of Natural History by Philip Henry Gosse (1863)
"IF great bulk excites our admiration, so does great minuteness. ... The excessive minuteness of the object in question is the point to be admired, ..."

2. Russian Central Asia: Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv by Henry Lansdell (1885)
"WHEN crossing Siberia in 1879 I had no conception, until I reached the end of my journey, of the minuteness with which the governors of provinces transmit ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery in the by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Beames (1818)
"[55*1 No Objection to a Partition from the Minuteness of the Interest, the Inconvenience, ... Minuteness ..."

4. The Talisman: A Tale of the Crusaders by Walter Scott (1878)
"... the Archduke was waited upon with a minuteness of form and observance which showed how anxious he was to maintain rigidly the state and character to ..."

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