Definition of Painstakingness

1. Noun. The trait of being painstaking and careful.


Definition of Painstakingness

1. Noun. The state or characteristic of being painstaking; the giving of careful attention to details.''Oxford English Dictionary'', 2nd ed., 1989. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Painstakingness

painmaker
painmakers
paino nobiles
pains
pains au chocolat
pains in the bum
painslut
painsluts
painstaken
painstakenly
painstaker
painstakers
painstaking
painstakingly
painstakingness (current term)
painstakings
painsworthy
paint
paint-billed crake
paint-billed crakes
paint-by-numbers
paint a picture
paint by numbers
paint leaf
paint oneself into a corner
paint out
paint roller
paint the lily
paint the town

Literary usage of Painstakingness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1908)
"... and historical writer.2 Then, with extension of knowledge, has come a sharpening of intelligence and increased stringency of method—a painstakingness in ..."

2. Prince Bismarck: An Historical Biography by Charles Lowe (1885)
"But whereas the latter, with that hair-splitting painstakingness so dear to the professorial mind, had dawdled over its work more than a year, ..."

3. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1906)
"... springing from his very painstakingness and constant sense of the intricacy and manifoldness of the factors involved in the phenomena under review, ..."

4. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1873)
"You can work your way upwards into the aristocracy of genius by painstakingness: do not fear competition with one who claims the patent of intellectual ..."

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