EXACTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exactness mean? 

• EXACTNESS (noun)
  The noun EXACTNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being exact

  Familiarity information: EXACTNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXACTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being exact

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

exactitude; exactness

Context example:

a man of great exactitude

Hypernyms ("exactness" is a kind of...):

accuracy; truth (the quality of being near to the true value)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exactness"):

minuteness (great precision; painstaking attention to details)

preciseness; precision (the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance)

trueness (exactness of adjustment)

Antonym:

inexactness (the quality of being inexact)

Derivation:

exact ((of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct)

exact (marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact)

 Context examples 

They have observed ninety-three different comets, and settled their periods with great exactness.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well as I can remember it, since last I made an entry.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

With great speed and exactness every preparation was rapidly made by these experienced men.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fanny thought it a bold measure, but offered no further resistance; and they went together into the breakfast-room, where Edmund prepared her paper, and ruled her lines with all the goodwill that her brother could himself have felt, and probably with somewhat more exactness.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

HE, meanwhile, whatever he might feel, acted with all the firmness of a collected mind, made every necessary arrangement with the utmost despatch, and calculated with exactness the time in which she might look for his return.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In poetry, they must be allowed to excel all other mortals; wherein the justness of their similes, and the minuteness as well as exactness of their descriptions, are indeed inimitable.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It seems indeed to be a work that requires some exactness, but the professor assured us, “that if it were dexterously performed, the cure would be infallible.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They observed by my teeth, which they viewed with great exactness, that I was a carnivorous animal; yet most quadrupeds being an overmatch for me, and field mice, with some others, too nimble, they could not imagine how I should be able to support myself, unless I fed upon snails and other insects, which they offered, by many learned arguments, to evince that I could not possibly do.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)