Meaning of EXACTNESS
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| | Definition: | | [n] the quality of being exact; "he demanded exactness in all details"; "a man of great exactitude" |
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| | Synonyms: | | exactitude |
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| | Antonyms: | | inexactitude, inexactness | | |
| | See Also: | | accuracy, preciseness, precision, trueness, truth | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex*act"ness\, n.
1. The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision;
regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment.
2. Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as,
exactness in accounts or business.
He had . . . that sort of exactness which would have
made him a respectable antiquary. --Macaulay.
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| | Related Terms: | | absoluteness, accuracy, attention to detail, attention to fact, care for truth, circumstantiality, conscientiousness, correctness, criticality, criticalness, definiteness, delicacy, detail, exactingness, exactitude, exquisiteness, faithfulness, faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, flawlessness, fussiness, literalism, literality, literalness, mathematical precision, meticulousness, minuteness, niceness, nicety, particularity, particularness, perfection, preciseness, precisianism, precision, punctiliousness, punctuality, refinement, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, severity, strictness, subtlety, textualism, the letter |
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