scrupulosity
Excessive conscience anxiety
Scrupulosity is excessive concern with moral or religious correctness, often to the point of anxiety or obsession.
A person with scrupulosity may agonize over minor sins, fear they've offended God, or compulsively seek reassurance about their spiritual standing.
In psychology, it's recognized as a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder focused on religious or ethical matters: Her scrupulosity made confession feel like an endless loop.
Perfect correctness in detail
- fastidiousnessExcessive concern for precision
- thoroughnessAttention to every detail
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- rigorStrict, thorough precision
overcaution · self-criticism · paralysis · indecision · second-guessing · overanalysis · nitpicking · faultlessness
Compulsive repetition disorder
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- checkingAct of verification
- doubtLack of firm belief
hypervigilance · obsession · repetition · avoidance · neutralizing · looping · fixation · preoccupation
Admission of wrongdoing
- sinViolation of divine law
- blasphemyIrreverence toward the sacred
- purityUncontaminated quality
- prayerAddress to deity
ritual · absolution · penance · damnation · salvation · sacrilege · commandments · contrition
Internal moral sense
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
rectitude · probity · duty · responsibility · self-reproach · wrongdoing · transgression · culpability
exactitude
Perfect correctness in detail
- fastidiousnessExcessive concern for precision
- thoroughnessAttention to every detail
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
rigor · overcaution · self-criticism · paralysis · indecision · second-guessing · overanalysis · nitpicking · faultlessness · flawlessness
OCD
Compulsive repetition disorder
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- checkingAct of verification
doubt · hypervigilance · obsession · repetition · avoidance · neutralizing · looping · fixation · preoccupation · distress
confession
Admission of wrongdoing
prayer · ritual · absolution · penance · damnation · salvation · sacrilege · commandments · contrition · unworthiness
conscience
Internal moral sense
righteousness · rectitude · probity · duty · responsibility · self-reproach · wrongdoing · transgression · culpability · remorse
- compulsionsOCD, compulsion, obsession, handwashing, hand washing
- OCDOCD, obsession, obsessions, compulsion, compulsions
- Puritanismpuritanism, moral purity, prudery, prudishness, strictness
- confessionconfession, absolution, admission, acknowledgment, declaration
- hypocrisyhypocrisy, hypocrite, sanctimony, two-faced, self-righteousness
- obsessionobsession, fixation, compulsion, monomania, preoccupation
scrupulosityunscrupulousness
Lack of ethical restraint
amorality · immorality · shamelessness · shenanigans · wickedness
scrupulosityeasygoingness
Relaxed, untroubled temperament
nonchalance · laxness · carelessness · negligence · insouciance
scrupulosityirreligion
Absence of faith
impiety · ungodliness · worldliness · secularity · sacrilege
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