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• n  the property of being very small in size
  hence the minuteness of detail in the painting
• n  great precision; painstaking attention to details
  he examined the essay with the greatest minuteness

• The days immediately preceding the war are described with graphic minuteness from the naval angle, as are the opening phases of the world conflict.
• He had a Wellsian feeling for science and material progress, often pondered on the vastness of the material universe, as contrasted with the minuteness of man.
• Looking at his picture of a soda bottle simply perched on the hood of a car, you can't help thinking of what Henry James once wrote about Nathaniel Hawthorne: "The minuteness of .

• diminutiveness
• petiteness
• tininess
• weeness

Quotes

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• David Attenborough in Earthtimes.org
  Attenborough told the newspaper, "The BBC should take steps to make sure that the minuteness of the meanings are maintained."