punctiliousness
81circumspection — caution, wariness, calculation, chariness (see under CAUTIOUS) Analogous words: carefulness or care, punctiliousness, punctuality, meticulosity, scrupulousness (see corresponding adjectives at CAREFUL): discretion, forethought, foresight,… …
82keep — vb 1 Keep, observe, celebrate, solemnize, commemorate are comparable when they mean to pay proper attention or honor to something prescribed, obligatory, or demanded (as by one s nationality, religion, or rank), but they vary widely in their… …
83care — n 1. worry, anxiety, disquiet, disquietude, uneasiness, inquietude; distress, fretfulness, misgiving, qualm, apprehension; trouble, concern, regard, solicitude, cark; anguish, sorrow, dolor, grief, sadness, affliction, heartache; matter, ailment …
84concern — v 1. relate to, pertain to, appertain to, have to do with, regard; refer to, apply to, mean, go for; affect, touch, bear on or upon, have bearing on, be relevant to, be of importance or interest to, interest; be connected with, be affiliated with …
85detail — n 1. item, particular, fact, point, factor, element, circumstance; aspect, feature, respect, attribute; unit, component, part, member, accessory. 2. details particulars, minutiae, niceties, fine points, fine print; counts, items, petty or minor… …
86niceness — n 1. preciseness, precision, exactitude, mathematical exactitude, exactness; meticulousness, attention to detail, accuracy, criticalness, methodicalness; skill, skillfulness, control, technique; conscientiousness, care, infinite care, carefulness …
87pedantry — n 1.(all in reference to one s learning) pretension, affectation, pomposity, pompousness, haughtiness, conceit, attitudinarianism; pedagogism, pedagogery, didacticism, preachiness, pedantism, pedanticism, pedanticalness; bookishness, stuffiness,… …
88perfectionism — n fastidiousness, criticalness, over criticalness, hypercriticalness, overdemandingness, de mandingness, exactingness; fussiness, particularity, overparticularness, daintiness, finicalness, finicality, Inf. pernicketiness, meticulousness,… …
89precision — n 1. exactness, exactitude, closeness, preciseness, Math. degree of error; accuracy, accurateness, correctness, rightness, rectitude, unerringness, {lawlessness, faultlessness, perfection; literalism, tex tualism, adherence to the letter or text …
90priggishness — n 1. prudery, prudishness, puritan icalness, overmodesty, old maidishness, Grundyism; hideboundness, strait lacedness, buckram, stiffness, stiff neckedness, strictness, severity, formality; snobbery, snobbishness, stiltedness, Sl. snootiness, Sl …
