minutia
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- noun
- /mɪˈnuːʃə/
- Individuals, however, should not get bogged down on minutia.
- minutia of life
- get into the minutia
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Watch on YouTubeAnd 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
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A small fact or piece of information about something
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A small point that is not important
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A small detail that does not matter
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Every small detail that must be exact
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A very small part that you can only see with a microscope
How Small
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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.