detailist

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A person who is detail-oriented

   A person who is detail-oriented; One who focuses on detail.

   • In cost department work ability as a detailist is exceptionally desirable in the work of making entries.
   • Dr. Kober has always been a great detailist without being small or petty, a particularist without being narrow or prejudiced.
   • He is the scientist, not as particularizer and detailist, but as the forceful synthesizer of a truly vast amount of apparently unrelated objects, events, and structures.
2. 2

   An artist who produces highly detailed work.

   • The detailist fills his canvas with work and interest; the full-souled painter concentrates his detail upon a few salient points.
   • His canvases are worked over with painstaking care, not as the detailist works to delineate buttons and boot-straps, but for harmonies of tender color and the charm of reflected light.
3. 3

   Detail-oriented

   • The lawyer-like regulatory systems exhibit qualities and flaws not unknown in the parent profession. They are moral and preachy, careful and slow, professional and inbred, studious and detailist.
   • Strengthening these aspects would also free law teaching from too detailist knowledge.
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   1. 4

      Highly detailed.

      • What can be said, though, is that it contains more unplotted detail than its predecessors. It is more vulgar—more detailist—than any prior realism.
      • I should again say that, when I speak of Miró's sparing use of shadows in his detailist work, I refer to shadow that falls away from the object that casts it, rather than to the shadow that models an object.

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