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Definition of Preciseness
1. Noun. Clarity as a consequence of precision.
Generic synonyms: Clarity, Clearness, Limpidity, Lucidity, Lucidness, Pellucidity
Derivative terms: Clear-cut, Clear-cut, Precise
2. Noun. The quality of being reproducible in amount or performance. "Note the meticulous precision of his measurements"
Generic synonyms: Exactitude, Exactness
Antonyms: Impreciseness, Imprecision
Derivative terms: Precise
Definition of Preciseness
1. Noun. The condition of being precise; precision ¹
2. Noun. (dated) pedantic behaviour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Preciseness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preciseness
Literary usage of Preciseness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... upon a club among them, where I could find that there was nothing at all left
of the old preciseness in their discourse, especially on Saturday nights; ..."
2. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"... asserted by the counsel with equal assurance, distracted the court, and
confounded the suitors. He used to commend the common law for the preciseness of ..."
3. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"He used to commend the common law for the preciseness of its rules. There men
knew their times to plead, to give notices, to enter judgments, ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"... punctiliousness, scrupulousness, preciseness, caution, nice regard to propriety,
tenderness of conscience. Scrupulous, a. I. Conscientious, punctilious ..."
5. Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales and the Marches by John Roland Phillips (1874)
"The Parliament papers of this date are vague and lack preciseness. Some sort of
an attempt to intercept the onward course of Gerard appears to have been ..."
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