| Main Entry: | meticulousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thoroughness |
Synonyms: |
TLC, awareness, care, carefulness, concern, consciousness, fastidiousness, pain*, painstaking, punctiliousness, scrupulousness, spotlight*, tender loving care |
| Main Entry: | accuracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | precision or correctness |
Synonyms: |
accurateness, carefulness, certainty, closeness, definiteness, definitiveness, definitude, efficiency, exactitude, exactness, faultlessness, incisiveness, mastery, meticulousness, preciseness, sharpness, skill, skillfulness, strictness, sureness, truthfulness, veracity, verity |
Antonyms: |
erroneousness, falsehood, inaccuracy, mistake |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carefulness, attention to detail |
Synonyms: |
alertness, caution, circumspection, concentration, concern, conscientiousness, consideration, diligence, direction, discrimination, effort, enthusiasm, exactness, exertion, fastidiousness, forethought, heed, interest, management, meticulousness, nicety, pains, particularity, precaution, prudence, regard, scrupulousness, solicitude, thought, trouble, vigilance, wariness, watchfulness |
Antonyms: |
carelessness, neglect, negligence, omission, oversight |
| Main Entry: | nicety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fine point |
Synonyms: |
detail, exactness, fine distinction, meticulousness, nuance, precision, refinement, rigor, rigorousness, shade, subtlety |
| Notes: | niceness is a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage while nicety is a fine detail, distinction, or small difference or an elegant, choice, or refined feature |
| Main Entry: | precision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accuracy |
Synonyms: |
attention, care, carefulness, correctness, definiteness, definitiveness, definitude, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, heed, meticulousness, nicety, particularity, preciseness, rigor, sureness |
Antonyms: |
imprecision, inaccuracy, inexactness |
| Main Entry: | rigor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strictness, exactness |
Synonyms: |
accuracy, affliction, asperity, austerity, conscientiousness, conventionalism, difficulty, exactitude, firmness, hardness, hardship, harshness, inclemency, inflexibility, intolerance, meticulousness, obduracy, ordeal, preciseness, precision, privation, punctiliousness, rigidity, roughness, severity, sternness, stiffness, stringency, suffering, tenacity, thoroughness, traditionalism, trial, tribulation, vicissitude, visitation |
Antonyms: |
ease, elasticity, flexibility, leniency, pliability |
| Main Entry: | pedantry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sophistry |
Synonyms: |
bookishness, dogmatism, exactness, meticulousness, pedagogery, precision, pretension |
| Main Entry: | spit and polish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attention to neatness |
Synonyms: |
cleanliness, cleanly habits, discipline, fastidiousness, meticulousness, neatness, orderliness, punctilio, regimentation, rigorousness, tidiness |
| Main Entry: | carefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thoroughness |
Synonyms: |
attentiveness, care, conscientiousness, fastidiousness, meticulousness, painstakingness, punctiliousness, scrupulousness |
| Main Entry: | exactitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accuracy |
Synonyms: |
accurateness, carefulness, correctness, exactness, faultlessness, meticulousness, preciseness, precision, thoroughness |