minuteness

Example Sentences

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The story was told with a minuteness of detail and dexterous use of technical phrases that not only imposed upon the ordinary reader, but deceived and puzzled men of science to an astonishing degree.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2022

That trio of adjectives captures the pin's minuteness, though the poet might be criticised for using both "small" and "little".

From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2012

The apparent modesty of Austen's dramas is only apparent; the minuteness of design is a bravura achievement.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2012

By the minuteness of detail I would judge that Captain George Fred was a close observer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Atoms, in other words, exist on a scale of minuteness of another order altogether.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson