minuteness

From minute +‎ -ness.

• IPA^(key): /maɪˈn(j)uːt.nɪs/, /-nəs/

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minuteness (usually uncountable, plural minutenesses)

1. The property of being minute.
2. (countable, rare) Something very tiny.
   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

     Hitherto I have hoarded up mementoes and monuments of the past; been a worshiper of all heirlooms; a fond filer away of letters, locks of hair, bits of ribbon, flowers, and the thousand-and-one minutenesses which love and memory think they sanctify:—but it is forever over now!