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diminutiveness

diminutiveness

9.1
The state of being very small in size
  • noun
  • /dɪˈmɪn.ju.tɪv.nəs/
translation icon : diminutividad
  • His diminutiveness was often a source of teasing from his peers, but he learned to embrace it.

Examples

  • Her diminutiveness made her appear even more delicate and fragile in the crowd.

  • Significantly, diminutiveness, or "the little manner"—art as personal commodity or ornament rather than art as monumental form—was regularly coded as female in the eighteenth century.

    Academic text (2013)

  • After all, who would marry a person of my diminutiveness?

    Fiction book (1999)

  • These depictions, however, also reflect how she herself perceived the Chinese: her frequent use of the term "little" to describe them suggests not only the physical but also the political diminutiveness she attributed to them.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The artist embraced the diminutiveness of her sculptures, highlighting their intricate details.

Synonyms

smallness
vsdiminutiveness
1 1.6

The state of being not large in size or amount

is narrower and focuses on extreme reduction in size or extent
tininess
vsdiminutiveness
1 4.3

The condition of being very small

is the same sense without extra nuance
meagerness
vsdiminutiveness
  • US
1 7.0

A very small amount of something that is not enough

is about extreme physical smallness rather than scarcity or lack
minuteness
vsdiminutiveness
  • Formal
6.7

The small size of something

is more extreme and means even less in size or extent
petiteness
vsdiminutiveness
5.6

A state of being very small

is stronger and refers to an extremely reduced size or extent
littleness
vsdiminutiveness
5.9

A state of being small in size

is stronger and stresses extreme reduction in size or extent

Antonyms

greatness
1 3.7

A very large size or amount, like a mountain

largeness
1 3.2

A great physical size, like a tree or hall

How Small

diminutiveness
9.1
minuteness
  • Formal
6.7
tininess
1 4.3
smallness
1 1.6

Surface Forms

diminutiveness singular
diminutivenesses plural

Morphology

diminutiveness = diminutive (transparent) = diminutive + ness

Standard nominalization of the adjective 'diminutive' with '-ness' yields the state or quality 'the state of being diminutive'.

Etymology

The word diminutiveness comes from Latin parts meaning 'to make small' and 'small', and you can see the same idea in the words diminish and minute. So, diminutiveness means the quality of being very small.