Adjective : a diminutive building for a model-train layout.    From Dictionary.com. 

Or, “will probably retire from the chase and throw up the business through mere diminutiveness.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Hunting] Reference

Imagine a vast room, deliberately created as an interactive art work in order to convey the feeling of diminutiveness relative to a universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  ["For Republicans, there's only one candidate of hope: Hillary Rodham Clinton."] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Hunting] Reference

She had dark, flashing eyes, pearly teeth, full ruby lips and feet and hands that were of fairylike diminutiveness, as well as miracles of grace and dainty shapeliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference

I like to fancy the fairy foot, round and pulpy, but small to diminutiveness, peeping from beneath the drapery that half conceals it, or moving in the mazes of the dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832] Reference

The Myrtle Bee is about half the size of the common Wren, certainly not larger: and I always took it for granted, the bird derived its name from its diminutiveness and the cover it frequented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

All affectations in writing should be avoided, such as sloping one's hand to the left, the use of flourishes, undue size in the characters, or a diminutiveness of the same to try eyesight and patience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference

Men have come to me who were ashamed to show their organs because of their diminutiveness, and who practiced masturbation and lived in celibacy rather than bear the humiliation of exposure of the parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc.] Reference

Churchill's diminutiveness, and exaggerated those complacent smiles and oily rippling chins of Sir William Harcourt, continuing them long after the time when Sir William could boast the local portliness no more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

This may account for the flatness of views, and the diminutiveness of objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One] Reference

It presented its side and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

The diminutiveness of the nurse-perambulators is the most surprising part of the performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soul of the Far East] Reference

Algiers has at first an air of diminutiveness inferior to its fame in ancient and modern times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference

They belong to what is sometimes known as Micronesia, from the extreme diminutiveness of the land masses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom] Reference

It was not a dangerous-looking affair, to be sure, with its filmy lace edging and ridiculous diminutiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alaskan] Reference

Hustled through England as we were, one of the dominant impressions produced was of the diminutiveness of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Deductions from the Imperial Press Conference] Reference

Passers-by frequently glanced at it and thought it a nice little house whose amusing diminutiveness was a sort of attraction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference

Sand-martins differ from their congeners in the diminutiveness of their size, and in their colour, which is what is usually called a mouse-colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2] Reference

She was seated on a sofa at the far end of the room when Seymour Michael was shown in, and the first thing that struck her was his diminutiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [From One Generation to Another] Reference

In Greece there are few large churches, and some of the most interesting, like the Cathedral at Athens, are almost toy-like in their diminutiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

The water, building terraces and battlements, reflected enough light to impress me with the diminutiveness of the boat, set in the vastness on which it floated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greener Than You Think] Reference

To particularise: an under-sized dog will, ten to one, break off from the chase (7) faint and flagging in the performance of his duty owing to mere diminutiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sportsman] Reference

Of course our traveller was attracted by the diminutiveness of the feet of the Chinese women, and she had an opportunity of examining one of these tiny monstrosities in natura.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer]

The apostle repeats his kind appellation, little children, which I suppose does not so much denote their diminutiveness as his affection, and therefore, I judge, may be rendered dear children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

It had been magnified to a palace; it had dwindled down to Liliputian size; and yet, up till now, it had seemed to contain in its diminutiveness all the riches which he had attributed to its magnitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies] Reference

The idea is to expand Israel's financial services sector, whose size correlates with the country's diminutiveness, and create new jobs and wealth in an industry that now has a dearth of employment opportunities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Articles] Reference

I have described so much, that you will begin to think that all the accounts I used to give you of the diminutiveness of our habitation were fabulous; but it is really incredible how small most of the rooms are.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference

In English “the house-firelets burn” (not “burns”), in Nootka neither verb, nor adjective, nor anything else in the proposition is in the least concerned with the plurality or the diminutiveness of the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts] Reference

This same insular density, supported by fertility, fisheries and trade, appears again in the West Indies, and also the contrast in density between large and small islands down to a certain limit of diminutiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference

A palace to her eyes; but the six rooms in which she was to stow herself and family amazed and disheartened her with their diminutiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tangled Threads] Reference

Julian the Apostate, in the letter alluded to above sneers at the diminutiveness of his person -- mede aner, all anthropiokos euteles, he writes.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

Elle that suggests either femininity, as in mademoiselle, or a homely diminutiveness, as in bagatelle.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference

(7) Or, "will probably retire from the chase and throw up the business through mere diminutiveness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sportsman] Reference