minutia
- noun
- /mɪˈnuːʃə/
- Individuals, however, should not get bogged down on minutia.
- minutia of life
- get into the minutia
And I tried not to get too connected in the minutiae of relationships.
- And I tried not to get too connected in the minutiae of relationships.
- Vexatious and trivial minutiae find no refuge in my spirit.
- He started off his career investigating the minutiae of the world on a on a physical level.
- If you are thinking that you have to be involved in the minutiae of every single part of your child's life.
- They don't pick up on subtle clues because they get lost in a sea of minutiae.
- That is what has to happen before you can start getting into the minutiae of decision making and all the rest of it.
- They've gotten lost into the minutiae of what must happen versus who they could be that day.
- Now, thinking about it from Mel Robin's point of view, my mind got very cautious and I started to focus on all the minutiae.
- And that's a thing that shows up in in all of your stories, Like they're so laced with that level of, you know, attention to the minutiae.
- Like really getting into the minutiae and the building blocks of this product to understand it at a cellular level.
- When you start to get into kind of some of the more minutiae that people tend to fixate on, it's a little bit of majoring in the minor and minoring in the major.
- I mean, all the different down to the minutiae of thing, the little things.
Examples
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Let's not get hung up on the minutia.
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Despite all the minutia of everyday life crowding the experience of high school, we were privileged to simply be educated.
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What's your problem; caught up in the minutia and missing the point?
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Peer review absolutely requires keen attention to the minutia of process, methods, and materials.
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Since I trust modern science and peer review, I can enjoy the results and conclusions without worrying about the minutia.
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Often in in our courses and our writings, we have to focus on the academic minutiae to prove our cases.
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In this series, we are discussing at a high level above the fine print, above the minutia, a history of the fossil fuel industry, and how they have control or influence over governments.
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It would be against everything I stand for to let this deteriorate into an exercise in legal minutia.
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I didn't think that anyone could have a greater fondness for minutia than I do, but it turns out that I am not as fond of minutia as I thought.
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In order to understand the project, we need to examine the minutia of the contract carefully.
Synonyms
A small fact or piece of information about something
A small point that is not important
A small detail that does not matter
A very small part that you can only see with a microscope
Every small detail that must be exact
How Small
Surface Forms
Etymology
Minutia comes from the Latin minutus, meaning 'made small', and is related to English words like minute and mini. So, minutia means a very small or precise detail, which is why we use it for tiny points in plans or reports.