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meticulousness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun meticulousness has 1 sense
- meticulousness(n = noun.attribute) meticulosity, punctiliousness, scrupulousness - strict attention to minute details; Array is a kind of conscientiousness, painstakingness
Derived forms adjective meticulous2, adjective meticulous1
THESAURUS
meticulousness
Spartanism, absoluteness, accuracy, astringency, attention to detail, attention to fact, austerity, authoritarianism, care for truth, censoriousness, choosiness, circumstantiality, conscientiousness, correctness, criticality, criticalness, delicacy, demandingness, detail, discipline, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, exquisiteness, faithfulness, fastidiousness, faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, flawlessness, fussiness, grimness, harshness, literalism, literality, literalness, mathematical precision, minuteness, niceness, nicety, overconscientiousness, overscrupulousness, particularity, particularness, perfection, perfectionism, point of honor, preciseness, precisianism, precision, priggishness, prudishness, punctilio, punctiliousness, punctuality, purism, puritanism, qualm, refinement, regimentation, right, rightness, rigid discipline, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, ruggedness, scruple, scruples, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, selectiveness, selectivity, sensitivity, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency, subtlety, taste, textualism, the letter, toughness, twinge of conscience
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