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minutiae
/mɪˈnuʃiə/
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What does minutiae mean?
noun
- plural of minutia
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IPA pronunciation
/mɪˈnuʃiə/
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We had leisure to notice minutiae, such as the ingenious tail one of the “lions” had constructed from a sweater.
Indeed, without this tireless minutiae, and methodical, searching spirit, it would have been practically impossible to have produced many of the most important of these inventions.
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There were a few mothers whose actions I had the patience to watch, despite the wearisome minutiae of the rearing and the slowness of the result.
It might be said, "Why do you go into particulars? why dwell so much upon minutiae? Every one, without being told, knows how to wash himself!"
Day in and day out these minutiae were rehearsed.