Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MI-NUTE-NESS
MI-NUTE-NESS, n.
- Extreme smallness, fineness, or slenderness; as, the minuteness of the particles of air or of fluid; the minuteness of the filaments of cotton; the minuteness of details in narration.
- Attention to small things; critical exactness; as, the minuteness of observation or distinction.
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