diminutizations

Noun

diminutization (plural diminutizations)

1. The act or process of diminutizing.
   • A strain in Dickinson’s letters and some—though by far a minority—of her poems was a self-diminutization, almost as if to offset and deny—or even disguise—her actual dimensions as she must have experienced them. And this emphasis on her own “littleness,” along with the deliberate strangeness of her...1979, Adrienne Rich, “Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson”, in Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, editors, Shakespeare’s Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets, Bloomington: Indiana...