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

From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival

Passers-by frequently glanced at it and thought it a nice little house whose amusing diminutiveness was a sort of attraction.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

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, Vol. 2 by Morley, Henry

Nature has wisely established a compensation to make amends for the diminutiveness of organs by rapidity of movement, and has, consequently, furnished the animal with the necessary power to produce this rapidity.

From Lecture on Artificial Flight Given by request at the Academy of Natural Sciences by Krueger, Wm. G.