minutia

Noun

Meaning

A minute particular; a small or minor detail; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ABCs point fact information matter account article element factor respect thing aspect count detail item
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Antonyms

principle gargantuan determining factor critical factor key factor defining factor
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Hypernyms

point detail item

Derivatives

minutiae

Examples

You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led. Chesley Sullenberger

I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective. Eli Roth

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. Jeremy Northam

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. Danny Boyle

he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code Source: Internet

It’s easy to get bogged down in the minutia of your day to day business. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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