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n. - The property of being very small in size.

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Usage examples (36)
  • Adjective : a diminutive building for a model-train layout
  • Or, “will probably retire from the chase and throw up the business through mere diminutiveness.”
  • Imagine a vast room, deliberately created as an interactive art work in order to convey the feeling of diminutiveness relative to a universe.
  • 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.
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