Exactitude

//ɪɡˈzæktɪt(j)uːd// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Attention to small details; accuracy. countable, uncountable

    "[W]hen making a passage from one feeding-ground to another, the sperm whales, guided by some infallible instinct—say, rather, secret intelligence from the Deity—mostly swim in veins, as they are called; continuing their way along a given ocean-line with such undeviating exactitude, that no ship ever sailed her course, by any chart, with one tithe of such marvellous precision."

  2. 2
    the quality of being exact wordnet

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exactnessexactnessprecisionaccuracycircumstantialityclarity

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"I am inclined, however, to think that the terminological exactitude so necessary to scientific statement could not be accommodated to the range of the child-mind without a certain damage to the content."

Etymology

From French exactitude, from exact, from Latin exactus, perfect passive participle of exigō (“demand, claim as due" or "measure by a standard, weigh, test”), from ex (“out”) + agō (“drive”).

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