SCRUPULOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scrupulousness mean? 

• SCRUPULOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun SCRUPULOUSNESS has 2 senses:

1. conformity to high standards of ethics or excellence

2. strict attention to minute details

  Familiarity information: SCRUPULOUSNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCRUPULOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conformity to high standards of ethics or excellence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

honestness; honesty (the quality of being honest)

Antonym:

unscrupulousness (the quality of unscrupulous dishonesty)

Derivation:

scrupulous (having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Strict attention to minute details

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

meticulosity; meticulousness; punctiliousness; scrupulousness

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

conscientiousness; painstakingness (the trait of being painstaking and careful)

Derivation:

scrupulous (characterized by extreme care and great effort)

 Context examples 

There could be no harm in what had been done in so many respectable families, and by so many women of the first consideration; and it must be scrupulousness run mad that could see anything to censure in a plan like theirs, comprehending only brothers and sisters and intimate friends, and which would never be heard of beyond themselves.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)