Exactitude

Quick meaning: Exactitude is a noun meaning Attention to small details; accuracy.

Meaning

Attention to small details; accuracy.

Example Sentences

In Newspeak, euphony outweighed every consideration other than exactitude of meaning.

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; […]

[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.

Word Forms

• exactitudes

Synonyms for exactitude

Depending on context, synonyms include exactness.

Antonyms for exactitude

Common opposites include inexactitude, inexactness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exactness, particularity, thoroughness, nicety, precision, preciseness.

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