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Definition of Thoroughness
1. Noun. Conscientiousness in performing all aspects of a task.
Definition of Thoroughness
1. n. The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.
Definition of Thoroughness
1. Noun. the state of being thorough ¹
2. Noun. attention to detail ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thoroughness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thoroughness
Literary usage of Thoroughness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Teacher by Massachusetts Teachers Association (1872)
"thoroughness.—There is a crying want of this thoroughness in our scholars. ...
Out of the lack of this quality of thoroughness, comes that most subtle and ..."
2. Representative Modern Preachers by Lewis Orsmond Brastow (1904)
"thoroughness was equally a characteristic of his mental movement. His product
was in its main outlines fundamental. It was his habit to examine the ..."
3. Ordeal by Battle by Frederick Scott Oliver (1915)
"CHAPTER German thoroughness is an admirable quality, V- but even thoroughness
may be carried to extremes The state- which are absurd, or something worse. ..."
4. Ordeal by Battle by Frederick Scott Oliver (1915)
"German thoroughness is an admirable quality, CHAPTER but even thoroughness may
be carried to extremes 1 which are absurd, or something worse. ..."
5. The Teaching of Science by John Francis Woodhull (1918)
"Let us remember that thoroughness of understanding is a slow growth, ... A teacher
aiming at thoroughness might have kept Cayley or Sylvester working half ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"... condition of success would be thoroughness, and in the history of Rome he
found evidences that men may, though rarely, avoid half-measures, ..."
7. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century by John Theodore Merz (1907)
"... spirit is that of complete-^ ness and thoroughness of research. Secondly, the
German man of science was not only thorough, but was as little as the ..."
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