precisionist
Stickler for exactness
A precisionist is someone who insists on exactness and accuracy, often to a degree others find excessive.
The term applies to craftspeople, editors, or anyone who refuses to tolerate imprecision: She was a precisionist about grammar who couldn't let a misplaced comma pass.
In art history, Precisionism was a 1920s American movement emphasizing clean lines and geometric forms in industrial subjects.
- CubismFragmented geometric abstraction
- FuturismArt glorifying technology and speed
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- photorealismArt imitating camera accuracy
industrial · urban · American · architecture · painting · formalism · geometric · clean lines
Focused on small elements
- scrupulousThorough and principled
- fastidiousExcessively attentive to detail
- punctiliousExcessively careful about details
- thoroughComplete in every detail
careful · conscientious · diligent · exacting · methodical · rigorous · painstaking · particular
Degree of correctness
- calibrationAdjusting for measurement accuracy
- measurementDetermining size or amount
- specificityExactness of detail
- exactitudePerfect correctness in detail
quantification · resolution · sharpness · clarity · definition · refinement · consistency · analytical
Georgia O'Keeffe
- CubismFragmented geometric abstraction
- FuturismArt glorifying technology and speed
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
photorealism · industrial · urban · American · architecture · painting · formalism · geometric · clean lines · streamlined
detail-oriented
Focused on small elements
- scrupulousThorough and principled
- fastidiousExcessively attentive to detail
- punctiliousExcessively careful about details
thorough · careful · conscientious · diligent · exacting · methodical · rigorous · painstaking · particular · pedantic
accuracy
Degree of correctness
- calibrationAdjusting for measurement accuracy
- measurementDetermining size or amount
- specificityExactness of detail
exactitude · quantification · resolution · sharpness · clarity · definition · refinement · consistency · analytical · numerical
Puritanism
Protestant reform movement
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
- sectarianRigidly devoted to faction
- dogmaticAsserting opinions as facts
fundamentalist · orthodox · zealot · devotee · pietist · believer · disciple · follower · evangelical · doctrine
precisionistslob
Habitually untidy person
slacker · botcher · bungler · hack · approximator
precisionistimproviser
One who creates spontaneously
free spirit · loose cannon · winger · satisficer · pragmatist