exactitude
Rigorous attention to detail
Exactitude is precision or accuracy carried to an extreme degree.
The word emphasizes not just correctness but meticulous attention to detail: The watchmaker worked with extraordinary exactitude.
It often appears in contexts requiring careful measurement or faithful reproduction: historical exactitude, mathematical exactitude.
The term carries a slightly formal or literary tone compared to plain "accuracy."
Conformity to fact
- accuracyDegree of correctness
- fidelityLoyalty or exactness
- authenticityQuality of being genuine
- factualityAdherence to truth
correctness · verity · genuineness · honesty · integrity · faithfulness · certainty · undeniability
Attention to every detail
- diligenceCareful, persistent effort
- carefulnessQuality of being thorough
- conscientiousnessCareful attention to duty
- scrupulousnessCareful moral precision
punctiliousness · fastidiousness · attention · rigor · assiduity · detail-oriented · methodical · systematic
Strict, thorough precision
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- stringencySeverity of requirements
- severityIntensity of sternness
- inflexibilityQuality of being unbending
firmness · rigidity · formality · orthodoxy · austerity · unyielding · authoritarian · sternness
Degree of correctness
- correctnessState of being accurate
- fidelityLoyalty or exactness
- calibrationAdjusting for measurement accuracy
- measurementDetermining size or amount
specificity · metrology · tolerance · quantification · vernier · micrometer · calipers · gauge
Total absence of defects
- impeccabilityFreedom from any flaw
- excellenceOutstanding quality or merit
- purismInsistence on correctness
- idealismBelief in noble principles
obsessiveness · overachievement · finesse · perfectionist · precisionist · uncompromising · demanding
veracity
Conformity to fact
- accuracyDegree of correctness
- fidelityLoyalty or exactness
- authenticityQuality of being genuine
factuality · correctness · verity · genuineness · honesty · integrity · faithfulness · certainty · undeniability · factualness
thoroughness
Attention to every detail
- diligenceCareful, persistent effort
- carefulnessQuality of being thorough
- conscientiousnessCareful attention to duty
scrupulousness · punctiliousness · fastidiousness · attention · rigor · assiduity · detail-oriented · methodical · systematic · painstaking
rigor
Strict, thorough precision
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- stringencySeverity of requirements
- severityIntensity of sternness
inflexibility · firmness · rigidity · formality · orthodoxy · austerity · unyielding · authoritarian · sternness · demanding
accuracy
Degree of correctness
- correctnessState of being accurate
- fidelityLoyalty or exactness
- calibrationAdjusting for measurement accuracy
measurement · specificity · metrology · tolerance · quantification · vernier · micrometer · calipers · gauge · definition
flawlessness
Total absence of defects
- impeccabilityFreedom from any flaw
- excellenceOutstanding quality or merit
- purismInsistence on correctness
idealism · obsessiveness · overachievement · finesse · perfectionist · precisionist · uncompromising · demanding
- Precision Wordsprecision, accuracy, precise, accurate, correctness
- fine pointsnuance, subtlety, detail, minutiae, minutia
- rigorstrictness, precision, thoroughness, severity, meticulousness
- military termsarmy, navy, air force, marines, soldier
- SwitzerlandBern, Geneva, Zurich, Basel, Lausanne
- strictnessseverity, rigor, harshness, rigidity, sternness
exactitudeimprecision
Lack of exactness
inexactness · inexactitude · inaccuracy · approximation · vagueness
exactitudesloppiness
Lack of neatness
carelessness · negligence · laxity · haphazardness · shoddiness
exact, exactly, examine, exacting, inexact, exactness, exigency, exigent, exaction