| minuteness 
 
 1. the property of being very small in size
 - 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
 - he examined the essay with the greatest minuteness
 • Derivationally related forms:
 minute
 • Hypernyms:
 exactness, exactitude
 
 
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