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minutia
noun
A minor detail, often of negligible importance.
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He told the website that he was quitting as candidate: "I am done with politics because people focus on the minutia," he said.
"It's worth remembering that Diana had to have an epidural after 15 hours," wittered one berk pundit who feathers his nest with this sort of creepy royal vaginal minutia.
So far, the highest-rated words include lugubrious, caterwaul, abstruse, minutia, cad, and Czechoslovakia, which is no longer a country but still a word.
Justice Scalia's opinion for the Court wades deeply into the minutia of the law of class actions, but the reason for the case's demise is really fairly simple.
In good neighborhoods he is part of the scenery, like a mailbox, but in bad neighborhoods, he is looked upon with positive appreciation... Describes the minutia of booking a perpetrator, especially fingerprinting.
Collectively, these details are referred to as minutiae — an average human fingerprint may contain as many as a hundred and fifty minutia points.
The symptoms of this developmental disorder include early precocity, a great ability to maintain masses of information, a lack of ability to mix with groups in age-appropriate ways, ignorance of or indifference to social norms, high intelligence, and difficulty with transitions, married to a preternatural ability to concentrate on the minutia of the task at hand".
No minutia appears to have been too obscure to include.
Great children's-book authors seem to intuitively understand this, and they lace their work with minutia.
"While last week I was tormenting myself with minutia like making sure I had the perfect flower arrangements or the best song list, all of that has since faded away," the bride said in a text message.
He loves to "geek out," as he puts it, on R-values and other construction trade minutia.
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