Definitions for meticulousness
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
me•tic•u•lous*məˈtɪk yə ləs(adj.)
taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough.
finicky; fussy.
* Syn: See painstaking.
Origin of meticulous:
1525–35; < L metīculōsus full of fear, fearful =metī- for metū- (s. of metus fear) +-culōsus, extracted from perīculōsusperilous
me•tic′u•lous•ness(n.)
Princeton's WordNet
meticulousness, meticulosity, punctiliousness, scrupulousness(noun)
strict attention to minute details
Wiktionary
meticulousness(Noun)
The state or characteristic of being meticulous.
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