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

The Myrtle Bee is about half the size of the common Wren, certainly not larger: and I always took it for granted, the bird derived its name from its diminutiveness and the cover it frequented.

From Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Consequently he sits tall, and with the peculiar erectness of head and neck, his diminutiveness disappears.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

Accordingly, I stayed in his bedroom, where I had found him writing, and he went into his sitting-room, of which, from the diminutiveness of his domicile, I commanded a full view, sit where I would.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida

The water, building terraces and battlements, reflected enough light to impress me with the diminutiveness of the boat, set in the vastness on which it floated.

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward