noun
1. the property of being very small in size
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hence the minuteness of detail in the painting
• Syn: ↑diminutiveness, ↑petiteness, ↑tininess, ↑weeness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑wee (for: ↑weeness), ↑tiny (for: ↑tininess), ↑petite (for: ↑petiteness), ↑minute, ↑diminutive (for: ↑diminutiveness)
• Hypernyms: ↑smallness, ↑littleness
2. great precision; painstaking attention to details
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he examined the essay with the greatest minuteness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑minute
• Hypernyms: ↑exactness, ↑exactitude
Useful english dictionary. 2012.