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meticulousness
[muh-tik-yuh-luhs] 
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meticulousness
[muh-tik-yuh-luhs]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thoroughness |
| Synonyms: | TLC, awareness, care, carefulness, concern, consciousness, fastidiousness, pain*, painstaking, punctiliousness, scrupulousness, spotlight*, tender loving care |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
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