Exactness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exactness \Ex*act"ness\, n.
     1. The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision;
        regularity; as, exactness of judgement or deportment.
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     2. Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as,


        exactness in accounts or business.
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              He had . . . that sort of exactness which would have
              made him a respectable antiquary.     --Macaulay.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  exactness
       n : the quality of being exact; "he demanded exactness in all
           details"; "a man of great exactitude" [syn: {exactitude}]
           [ant: {inexactness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "exactness":
     absoluteness, accuracy, attention to detail, attention to fact,
     care for truth, circumstantiality, conscientiousness, correctness,
     criticality, criticalness, definiteness, delicacy, detail,
     exactingness, exactitude, exquisiteness, faithfulness,
     faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, finicality, finicalness,
     finickiness, finickingness, flawlessness, fussiness, literalism,
     literality, literalness, mathematical precision, meticulousness,
     minuteness, niceness, nicety, particularity, particularness,
     perfection, preciseness, precisianism, precision, punctiliousness,
     punctuality, refinement, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness,
     rigor, rigorousness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, severity,
     strictness, subtlety, textualism, the letter