Definition of Punctuality

1. Noun. The quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time.

Exact synonyms: Promptness
Generic synonyms: Timing
Derivative terms: Prompt, Punctual
Antonyms: Tardiness

Definition of Punctuality

1. n. The quality or state of being punctual; especially, adherence to the exact time of an engagement; exactness.

Definition of Punctuality

1. Noun. The state of being punctual ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Punctuality

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Punctuality

punctilio
punctilios
punctiliously
punctiliousness
punction
punctions
punctist
punctists
puncto
punctos
punctual
punctualist
punctualists
punctualities
punctuality (current term)
punctuall
punctually
punctualness
punctuate
punctuated
punctuated equilibrium
punctuates
punctuating
punctuation
punctuation mark
punctuation marks
punctuation space
punctuational
punctuationism

Literary usage of Punctuality

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

1. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana (1848)
"IMPORTANCE OF punctuality IN BUSINESS. Method is the very hinge of business : that there is no method without punctuality is important, because it subserves ..."

2. The Neurotic Constitution: Outlines of a Comparative Individualistic by Alfred Adler (1917)
"There always remains in this attitude of punctuality so much of aggression that these patients exact the greatest punctuality from everybody without ..."

3. The Moral Philosophy of Courtship and Marriage: Designed as a Companion to by William Andrus Alcott (1857)
"Especially is this true of punctuality in all the early engagements of the day. ... Now, if punctuality is valuable, either for its relative or its ..."

4. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"punctuality to the family hours would be expected at Northanger. Returning through the large and lofty hall, they ascended a broad staircase of shining oak, ..."

5. Systematic Moral Education: With Daily Lessons in Ethics by John King Clark (1910)
"punctuality 1. General punctuality. What is meant by punctuality? ... punctuality at Home. When we know the hour we should rise in the morning, ..."

6. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Education Association, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1864)
"punctuality IN SCHOOL. There is no principle of action that is more commendable in a scholar, ... If punctuality then has such a bearing on the character, ..."

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