单词 | meticulousness |
释义 | meticulousnessn. The quality of being meticulous; meticulosity, scrupulousness, punctiliousness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > scrupulous care or attention to detail chariness1571 minuteness1640 exactness1645 particularity1669 nicety1711 exactitude1735 narrowness1817 particularness1859 scrupulousness1863 detail1868 scrupulosity1879 meticulosity1887 meticulousness1909 1909 Westm. Gaz. 17 Aug. 2/1 China..then took refuge in an interpretation of the letter of the Treaty which was quite Portian in its meticulousness. 1923 Sunday at Home Mar. 382/2 He was measured and cautious in his statements to the point of meticulousness. 1937 Discovery Jan. 32/2 The pleasing meticulousness of a Chinese drawing. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female x. 216 The resistance against certain diseases..may depend upon the meticulousness with which they use learned, not specific inherent, capacities. 1988 Independent 20 Nov. 19/5 Wakelin's..works were all in the field of dialectology, and remained influenced by the meticulousness of the Survey [of English Dialect]'s approach. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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