diminutiveness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Smallness; littleness; want of bulk, dignity, importance, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state or quality of being diminutive.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the property of being very small in size

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Examples

  • Considering my diminutiveness, the size of the pail in my lap, and my drinking out of it my breath held and my face buried to the ears in foam, it was rather difficult to estimate how much I drank.

    Chapter 3 2010

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

    Les Miserables 2008

  • As for fstop, the fact that he dismisses Friedman out of hand is evidence enough of his mental diminutiveness to warrant ignoring his every post.

    "For Republicans, there's only one candidate of hope: Hillary Rodham Clinton." Ann Althouse 2008

  • As for fstop, the fact that he dismisses Friedman out of hand is evidence enough of his mental diminutiveness to warrant ignoring his every post.

    "For Republicans, there's only one candidate of hope: Hillary Rodham Clinton." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Imagine a vast room, deliberately created as an interactive art work in order to convey the feeling of diminutiveness relative to a universe.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • To particularise: an under-sized dog will, ten to one, break off from the chase71 faint and flagging in the performance of his duty owing to mere diminutiveness.

    On Hunting 2007

  • Or, “will probably retire from the chase and throw up the business through mere diminutiveness.”

    On Hunting 2007

  • Aristotle and of Horace, precede the introduction of another person into our story; but the portrait and the biography of this personage, this late arrival, shall not be long, taking into consideration his own diminutiveness.

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • Thus man, the giant who now held her in captivity, would shrink to the diminutiveness of a fairy; and she would experience, that his utmost force was unable to enchain her soul, or compel her to fear him, while he was destitute of virtue.

    The Italian 2004

  • The sheer diminutiveness of its area, or some other factor, has left Padar impoverished of large vertebrates.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

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