diminutiveness

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival

They both express the idea of smallness or diminutiveness.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

My general diminutiveness of person has always been more than compensated, I think, by a corresponding magnitude of mind; but one is none the less sensitive to wayside ribaldry.

From Aliens by McFee, William