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precision - 14 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | precision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accuracy |
| Synonyms: | attention, care, correctness, exactness, fidelity, heed, nicety, rigor, carefulness, definiteness, definitiveness, definitude, exactitude, meticulousness, particularity, preciseness, sureness |
| Antonyms: | inaccuracy, imprecision, inexactness |
| Main Entry: | clarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clearness |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, brightness, certainty, definition, distinctness, evidence, exactness, lucidity, precision, prominence, purity, simplicity, transparency, articulateness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, directness, exactitude, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, plainness, salience, tangibility, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Antonyms: | obscurity, dirtiness, unintelligiblity |
| Main Entry: | nicety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fine point |
| Synonyms: | detail, exactness, nuance, precision, refinement, rigor, shade, subtlety, fine distinction, meticulousness, rigorousness |
| 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: | perfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, completeness |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, acme, arete, completion, consummation, crown, ending, evolution, exactness, excellence, finish, fulfillment, ideal, integrity, maturity, merit, paragon, precision, purity, quality, realization, superiority, supremacy, virtue, wholeness, achieving, entireness, excellency, exquisiteness, faultlessness, finishing, idealism, impeccability, perfectness, phoenix, ripeness, sublimity, transcendence |
| Antonyms: | damage, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, worthlessness, incompleteness, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | rigor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strictness, exactness |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, affliction, asperity, austerity, conscientiousness, difficulty, firmness, hardship, harshness, intolerance, ordeal, precision, privation, roughness, severity, stiffness, suffering, tenacity, trial, tribulation, vicissitude, visitation, conventionalism, exactitude, hardness, inclemency, inflexibility, meticulousness, obduracy, preciseness, punctiliousness, rigidity, sternness, stringency, thoroughness, traditionalism |
| Antonyms: | ease, elasticity, flexibility, leniency, pliability |
| Main Entry: | veracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truth |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, candor, correctness, credibility, exactness, fact, fairness, fidelity, frankness, gospel*, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, precision, probity, real McCoy*, reality, rectitude, sincerity, truism, truthfulness, uprightness, verisimilitude, verity, word*, authenticity, exactitude, genuineness, honest-to-god truth, like it is, openness, rightness, straight stuff, trueness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, falsity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pedantry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sophistry |
| Synonyms: | exactness, precision, pretension, bookishness, dogmatism, meticulousness, pedagogery |
| Main Entry: | regularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evenness |
| Synonyms: | balance, clockwork, conformity, congruity, consistency, constancy, harmony, precision, proportion, punctuality, rhythm, rotation, routine, symmetry, uniformity, invariability, orderliness, periodicity, predictability, recurrence, steadiness |
| Main Entry: | correctness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accuracy |
| Synonyms: | exactness, fidelity, precision, regularity, truth, definiteness, definitiveness, definitude, exactitude, faultlessness, preciseness |
| Antonyms: | fault, flaw, imperfection, inaccuracy, incorrectness, wrong, impreciseness, inexactness |
| Main Entry: | truth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reality, validity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, axiom, case, certainty, correctness, dope*, exactness, fact, facts, gospel*, gospel truth*, infallibility, inside track*, maxim, naked truth*, nitty-gritty*, perfection, picture, precision, principle, rectitude, scoop, score, truism, truthfulness, veracity, verisimilitude, verity, authenticity, exactitude, factualism, factuality, factualness, genuineness, honest truth, legitimacy, plain talk, rightness, trueness, unvarnished truth, whole story |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, invention, untruth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | niceness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | accuracy |
| Synonyms: | precision, surety, exactitude |
| Main Entry: | smoothness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | evenness |
| Synonyms: | precision, regularity, levelness, sleekness |
| Main Entry: | fidelity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conformity to a standard |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, adherence, adhesion, attachment, closeness, constancy, correspondence, exactness, faithfulness, loyalty, precision, realism, exactitude, naturalism, preciseness, scrupulousness, verism |
| Antonyms: | nonconformity, vacillation, wavering, inconstancy, unsteadiness |
| Main Entry: | refinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivation, civilization |
| Synonyms: | civility, courtesy, delicacy, dignity, discrimination, elegance, enlightenment, erudition, finesse, finish, gentility, gentleness, good manners, grace, knowledge, lore, nicety, nuance, polish, politeness, precision, sophistication, style, suavity, subtlety, tact, taste, affability, courtliness, fastidiousness, fine point, fine tuning, fineness, good breeding, graciousness, politesse, urbanity |
| Antonyms: | bad manners, rudeness, crudeness |
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