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Word Meanings - EXACTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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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  • HONESTY
    Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
  • INTEGRITY
    1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More. 2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with
  • NICETY
    1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act,
  • STRICTNESS
    Quality or state of being strict.
  • CORRECTNESS
    The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy. Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; precision; propriety.
  • ACCURACY
    The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
  • LOYALTY
    The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc. He had such loyalty to the king as the law required. Clarendon. Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those Amazons his love still craved, To his one love
  • PRECISION
    The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness. I have left out the utmost precisions of fractions. Locke. Syn. -- Preciseness; exactness; accuracy; nicety. --
  • ALLEGIANCE
    The meaning was influenced by L. ligare to bind, and even by lex, 1. The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state. 2. Devotion; loyalty;
  • EXACTITUDE
    The quality of being exact; exactness.
  • FIDELITY
    Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations. Especially: Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty. Whose courageous fidelity was proof to all danger. Macaulay. The best
  • CLOSENESS
    The state of being close. Half stifled by the closeness of the room. Swift. We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. Addison. Syn.
  • EXACTNESS
    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
  • ATTACHMENT
    1. The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. 2. That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.
  • FEALTY
    1. Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer
  • DISHONESTY
    1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
  • REATTACHMENT
    The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
  • INACCURACY
    1. The quality of being inaccurate; want of accuracy or exactness. 2. That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc.
  • DISLOYALTY
    Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.
  • IMPRECISION
    Want of precision.
  • INCORRECTNESS
    The quality of being incorrect; want of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy; inexactness; as incorrectness may in defect or in redundance.
  • INEXACTNESS
    Incorrectness; want of exactness.

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