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

Historically they are the culmination of a development toward diminutiveness, for in their early days viols were larger than they are now.

From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

The diminutiveness of the nurse-perambulators is the most surprising part of the performance.

From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival

Sand-martins differ from their congeners in the diminutiveness of their size, and in their colour, which is what is usually called a mouse-colour.

From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert

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