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

From his diminutiveness, he went by the name of Boat Plug among the seamen.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman

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

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

I knew him instantly from the pictures I had seen of him, but was surprised at the diminutiveness of his person.

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