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punctiliousness
| Main Entry: |
punctiliousness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thoroughness |
| Synonyms: | TLC, awareness, care, carefulness, concern, consciousness, fastidiousness, meticulousness, pain*, painstaking, scrupulousness, spotlight*, tender loving care |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | compunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret, sorrow |
| Synonyms: | attrition, conscience, contrition, misgiving, penitence, penitency, pity, punctiliousness, qualm, reluctance, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, second thoughts, shame, stab of conscience, sympathy |
| Antonyms: | defiance, meanness, no remorse |
| Main Entry: | formality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | etiquette, protocol |
| Synonyms: | ceremoniousness, conventionalism, correctness, decorum, formalism, honors, mummery, p's and q's, politesse, propriety, punctiliousness |
| Antonyms: | informality |
| 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: | conscientiousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scrupulousness |
| Synonyms: | dutifulness, exactitude, faithfulness, honesty, honor, incorruptibility, mindfulness, pains, punctiliousness, steadfastness, uprightness, veracity |
| Antonyms: | indifference, negligence, nonchalance |
| Main Entry: | carefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thoroughness |
| Synonyms: | attentiveness, care, conscientiousness, fastidiousness, meticulousness, painstakingness, punctiliousness, scrupulousness |
| Main Entry: | fastidiousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thoroughness |
| Synonyms: | care, carefulness, fussiness, meticulousness, painstaking, preciseness, punctiliousness, scrupulousness |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scrupulousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thoroughness |
| Synonyms: | TLC, awareness, care, carefulness, concern, consciousness, fastidiousness, meticulousness, pain*, painstaking, punctiliousness, spotlight*, tender loving care |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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