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conscientiousness

noun

Etymology

From conscientious + -ness.

  1. derived from cōnscientiōsus
  2. derived from conscientieux
  3. suffixed as conscientiousness — “conscientious + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of being conscientious.

    • We come now to the greatest and noblest of the Moral Powers of Man; to that power which makes him quite a different order of being from any other that we know of, and which is the glory and crown of his existence:—his Conscientiousness.
    • It seems evident that those who have expressed the view that the following of personal inclination is sometimes morally better than conscientiousness are confusing this issue with another to which we must next give attention.

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