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exactitude

noun
/ɪɡˈzæktɪt(j)uːd/

Etymology

From French exactitude, from exact, from Latin exactus, perfect passive participle of exigō (“demand, claim as due" or "measure by a standard, weigh, test”), from ex (“out”) + agō (“drive”).

  1. derived from exactus
  2. borrowed from exactitude

Definitions

  1. Attention to small details

    Attention to small details; accuracy.

    • He paced stiffly, looking with extreme exactitude at Lingard's face; looking neither to the right nor to the left but at the face only, as if there was nothing in the world but those features familiar and dreaded; […]
    • In Newspeak, euphony outweighed every consideration other than exactitude of meaning.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for exactitude. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA