[
UK
/mɪnjˈuːʃɐ/
]
[ US /mɪˈnuʃiə/ ]
[ US /mɪˈnuʃiə/ ]
NOUN
-
a small or minor detail
he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code
How To Use minutia In A Sentence
- The minutiae of meetings remains private, but the general gist is that it was a problem and it has been addressed.
- Those letters dealing with the minutiae of politics are much less self-conscious than the diaries and have the value of immediacy. THE GUARDSMEN
- By night, he toils on his self-indulgent solo art film, obsessively documenting the minutiae of his life while the bigger picture-the growing distance between him and his foxy French lady friend Marlene-eludes him.
- In most academic classes, a lot of dense factual and conceptual information can come at you rapid-fire, and when one is taking 15 – 19 credit hours, I know that I certainly could not have recalled minutiae from a spare outline, even if I had been fully engaged. The Volokh Conspiracy » Laptops in Class Redux
- He added it was only possible to iron out the minutiae of the details once the centre was open.
- Frankly, I find the minutia of everyday life much more interesting than the glaring important life changing events that shape our lives.
- The tunnel problem might seem far-fetched, but the minutiae of motoring demand a moral compass. Times, Sunday Times
- Yet whenever the reader begins to tire of historical minutiae, the author throws in charming tidbits of bibliophilic lore.
- The committee studied the minutiae of the report for hours.
- As someone who has made her name deconstructing the minutiae of the high street, she was disconcertingly long on concept and short on detail of her own business. TV review: Mary Queen of Frocks; Transplant