minutia means A minor detail, often of negligible importance. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
minutia is pronounced /maɪ̯ˈn(j)uːʃ(iː)ə/.
Why “minutia” is a great word
MINUTIA — [Noun] A precise, often minor or trivial, detail. From the Latin minutia ("smallness, a trifle"), from minūtus ("small, little"), from minuō ("to make smaller, diminish"). First attested in English in the mid-18th century. Unlike an "overview," which provides a broad survey, or the "essence," which seeks the fundamental nature, a minutia is the irreducible, granular particle of observed reality. It is the exact pattern of cracks in a dried riverbed, the faint whorl of a fingerprint on a dusty glass, or the precise temperature at which a specific honey crystallizes. To catalogue minutiae is to believe the world is saved in its particulars.
noun
- 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.