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The tiny details everyone ignores until they're the only thing that matters.
means The small, precise details of something — the fussy little particulars that make up the whole.
from From Latin minutiae, meaning 'small things' or 'trifles,' itself from minutus — 'made small,' the same root that gives us 'minute' (the tiny measure of time, not the hour-sized one). The Romans used minutiae to talk about petty details, and English borrowed it whole in the 18th century, keeping its slightly dismissive Latin plural intact — a word that looks fussy because it was built to describe fussiness.
- plural of
- minutia, a word almost nobody uses
- pronunciation trap
- mi-NOO-shee-ee, not mi-NOO-tee
- etymology
- latin for small things, literally
- devil's address
- proverbially lives in the details