The quality of being chary; caution; scrupulous care; heedfulness, circumspectness; sparingness.

Precision as to minute details; painstaking attention to detail; critical exactness.

Minute attention to detail; carefulness, accuracy. In plural. Instances of the same.

Attentiveness to details of conduct or action; special carefulness; fastidiousness, scrupulousness.

Scrupulous care, particularity. Obsolete.

The quality of being exact; attention to minutiæ, accuracy of detail, precision. †Also (as in French) = exactness, n., perfect correctness (of a…

Narrow-mindedness.

The quality of being attentive to details; preciseness, fastidiousness.

The quality of being scrupulous (see the adjective).

The dealing with matters item by item; detailed treatment; attention to particulars. Esp. in phrase in (†the) detail, item by item; part by part…

The state or quality of being scrupulous (see the adjective).

Scrupulousness, punctiliousness, preciseness. In earlier use esp.: overscrupulousness. (Now generally superseded by meticulousness, n.)

The quality of being meticulous; meticulosity, scrupulousness, punctiliousness.