minutia.
A minor detail, often of negligible importance.
Meaning & usage
A minor detail, often of negligible importance.
They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress.
Any of the point features on fingerprints used for matching, usually endings and bifurcations of ridges.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin minutia, from minūtus (“small, little”), from minuō (“make smaller”). By surface analysis, minute + -ia.
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