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Definition of Minuteness

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

2. Noun. Great precision; painstaking attention to details. "He examined the essay with the greatest minuteness"

Definition of Minuteness

1. n. The quality of being minute.

Definition of Minuteness

1. Noun. The property of being minute. ¹

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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 (current term) 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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