Minutiae

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Minutia \Mi*nu"ti*a\, n.; pl. {Minutiae} (-[=e]). [L., fr.
     minutus small, minute. See 4th {Minute}.]
     A minute particular; a small or minor detail; -- used chiefly
     in the plural.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  minutia
       n : a small or minor detail; "he had memorized the many minutiae
           of the legal code"
       [also: {minutiae} (pl)]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  minutiae
       See {minutia}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  99 Moby Thesaurus words for "minutiae":
     ace, article, aspect, atom, bit, bric-a-brac, case, chaff,
     chicken feed, chickenshit, count, crumb, dab, datum, detail,
     details, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf,
     element, facet, fact, factor, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment,
     froth, gimcrackery, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair,
     handful, incidental, instance, iota, item, jot, knickknackery,
     little, little bit, matter, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim,
     minimum, minor detail, minutia, mite, modicum, molecule, mote,
     nutshell, ounce, particle, particular, peanuts, pebble, pinch,
     pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point, regard, respect, rubbish,
     scrap, scruple, small beer, small change, small potatoes, smidgen,
     smitch, snip, snippet, speck, spoonful, spot, thimbleful, thing,
     tiny bit, tittle, trash, trifles, trifling amount, trivia,
     triviality, trumpery, vanishing point, whit