Definition of Meticulousness

1. Noun. Strict attention to minute details.


Definition of Meticulousness

1. Noun. The state or characteristic of being meticulous. ¹

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Definition of Meticulousness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meticulousness

methæmoglobin
metiamide
metic
metica
meticais
metical
meticals
meticas
meticillin
metics
meticulosities
meticulosity
meticulous
meticulously
meticulousness (current term)
metier
metiers
metif
metifs
meting
metipranolol
metis
metisse
metisses
metlegoglobin reductase
metmyoglobin
metoclopramide
metoclopramide hydrochloride
metocurine

Literary usage of Meticulousness

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

1. Horizons: A Book of Criticism by Francis Hackett (1918)
"But even if his meticulousness becomes impractical at times, becomes an accountancy infinitely more delicate than life has any use for, exhibits a craving ..."

2. The New Republic Book: Selections from the First-hundred Issues (1916)
"Perhaps he weighs his little feelings too preciously, putting his coal as well as his gold in the apothecary's scales. But even if his meticulousness ..."

3. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy Of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences Staff, Caroline K. McEuen (1980)
"Adams' published works of that period (1910-1920) reflect his skill and meticulousness as an experimenter. They dealt not only with effects of environmental ..."

4. English Hunger and Industrial Disorders: A Study of Social Conflict During by Walter James Shelton (1922)
"... the knowing- ness affected by junior reviewers, the overgrowth of meticulousness in their peerings for an opinion, as if it were a cultivated habit in ..."

5. The Passing of the Great Reform Bill by James Ramsay Montagu Butler (1914)
"... and anxious that it should be carried through with all speed, knowing and recking nothing of the dilatory meticulousness of parliamentary procedure. ..."

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