Miniature vs Minuscule - What's the difference?
miniature | minuscule |
Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
A musical composition which is short in duration.
(gaming) A token in a game representing a unit or character.
Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
A particular feature or trait.
Smaller than normal.
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A lower-case letter.
Any of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule.
A letter in these styles.
Written in minuscules, lower-case.
Written in minuscule handwriting style.
Very small, tiny.
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Minuscule is a antonym of miniature.
As nouns the difference between miniature and minuscule
is that miniature is greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale while minuscule is a lower-case letter.As adjectives the difference between miniature and minuscule
is that miniature is smaller than normal while minuscule is written in minuscules, lower-case.As a verb miniature
is to make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.miniature
English
("miniature on Wikiquote")Noun
(en noun)- There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantlepiece.
- Sacha composed a miniature for strings as a final project at the conservatory.
- Jack had dozens of miniatures of Napoleonic footsoldiers painted in detailed period regalia for his wargames.
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Derived terms
* miniaturistAdjective
(en adjective)Alok Jha
Miniature brains grown in lab, passage=Scientists have grown miniature human brains in test tubes, creating a "tool" that will allow them to watch how the organs develop in the womb and, they hope, increase their understanding of neurological and mental problems. ¶ Just a few millimetres across, the "cerebral organoids" are built up of layers of brain cells with defined regions that resemble those seen in immature, embryonic brains.}}
Derived terms
* miniature poodle * miniaturismVerb
(miniatur)minuscule
English
(wikipedia minuscule)Alternative forms
* miniscule (Originally a misspelling, but now so common that it has come to be considered an alternative spelling by many )Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
