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

She had dark, flashing eyes, pearly teeth, full ruby lips and feet and hands that were of fairylike diminutiveness, as well as miracles of grace and dainty shapeliness.

From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Flagg, Edmund

It presented its side and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence