minuteness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MINU'TENESS, noun Extreme smallness, fineness or slenderness; as the minuteness of the particles of air or of a fluid; the minuteness of the filaments of cotton; the minuteness of details in narration. 1. Attention to small things; critical exactness; as the minuteness of observation or distinction.
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