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.
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Exactitude
//ɪɡˈzæktɪt(j)uːd//
Synonyms for "exactitude" (24 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Strong matches (7)
Related words (12)
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Translations
12 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- акуратност noun (attention to small details — see also accuracy)
- прецизност noun (attention to small details — see also accuracy)
Catalan
2 entries- exactitud noun (attention to small details — see also accuracy)
- justesa noun (attention to small details — see also accuracy)
Esperanto
1 entries- precizeco noun (attention to small details — see also accuracy)
French
1 entries- exactitude noun (attention to small details — see also accuracy)
Galician
1 entries- exactitude noun (attention to small details — see also accuracy)
Irish
3 entries- beachtaíocht noun (attention to small details — see also accuracy)
- beaichte noun (attention to small details — see also accuracy)
- cruinneas noun (attention to small details — see also accuracy)
Portuguese
1 entries- exatidão noun (attention to small details — see also accuracy)
Spanish
1 entries- exactitud noun (attention to small details — see also accuracy)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
[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.
Source: wiktionary
He paced stiffly, looking with extreme exactitude at Lingard's face; looking neither to the right nor to the left but at the face only, as if there was nothing in the world but those features familiar and dreaded; […]
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In Newspeak, euphony outweighed every consideration other than exactitude of meaning.
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