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minutenesses

minutenesses is the plural of minuteness.

Meaning of minuteness

Noun

minuteness (usually uncountable, plural minutenesses)

  1. (usually) The property of being minute.
    • Beedel picked up a loose sheet of paper and scored it heavily with a plan of the neighbourhood as he explained the position with some minuteness.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
  2. (countable, rare, usually) Something very tiny.
    • 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!1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Questions about minutenesses

What is minutenesses the plural of?
Minutenesses is the plural of minuteness.

Words near minutenesses in the dictionary

  1. minuteman
  2. minutemen
  3. minuten pin
  4. minuten pins
  5. minuteness
  6. minutenesses
  7. minuter
  8. minuters
  9. minutes
  10. minutes of angle
  11. minutes of arc

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