Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or quality of being exact.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being exact; exactness; accuracy; particularity.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being exact; exactness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being exact
Etymologies
- From French exactitude, from Latin exactus, perfect passive participle of exigō ("demand, claim as due" or "measure by a standard, weigh, test"), from ex ("out") + agō ("drive"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They are so full of what has been politely described as "terminological in exactitude.”
“* But without word-for-word exactitude; hence the absence of inverted commas.”
“As it happens, this passage was quoted in its entirety by the reviewer in Columbia Spectator, who added that to verify the "exactitude" of the description one needed only to listen to a Toscanini performance.”
“Discipline is, therefore, not a fact but a path, a path in following which the child grasps the abstract conception of goodness with an exactitude which is fairly scientific.”
“It is very true that Hawthorne had no pretension to pourtray actualities and to cultivate that literal exactitude which is now the fashion.”
“All of them perform as if "exactitude" were their mantra.”
“This is, no doubt, a very material method of expressing the great mystery of the reflection of the higher Manas in the lower, but since only those who have passed the portals of initiation can fully comprehend this, we must content ourselves with the nearest approximation to exactitude which is possible to us; and as a matter of fact, a very fairly accurate idea of what actually takes place will be obtained by adopting the hypothesis that the mânasic principle sends down a portion of itself into the lower world of physical life at each incarnation, and expects to be able to withdraw it again at the end of the life, enriched by all its varied experiences.”
“France Musicale"] (as you propose) to do me this service with the scrupulous exactitude which is requisite, for which I shall take the opportunity of expressing to him personally my sincere thanks?”
“Before arriving, she had worked at the French Laundry, a restaurant that she loved and that had left her with the same dedication to exactitude for which Thomas Keller is known for.”
“In her new classes, Kim excelled, bringing a steely exactitude to every task from turning vegetables to taking out the trash.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘exactitude’.
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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My List
A list of words that I have generated over time.
cairn, cacodaemoniacal, abash, abject, abjure, abstemious, abhor, abnegate, abnegation, abscond, abstruse, acclivity and 702 more...
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Calvino
Words found in "Six Memos for the Next Millennium"
courser, turn of phrase, encomium, apologia, digression, felicity, mot juste, syntony, focalization, laconic, metrical, impalpable and 17 more...
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simple & useful 14
fabrication, parapet, transverse, erecting, dimpled, blistering, epoxy, scrubbable, immersion, puttying, sandpapered, stippled and 65 more...
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I'm number one
words that i listed first. some are sort of made-up and a few belong in the "all things hair" section.
poptart, ipso facto, carelessness, uncommunicative, inkblot, exactitude, inevitably, woozie, goatee, lowlight, highlight, moisturize and 9 more...
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Gimme Some -tude
Words ending in -tude.
platitude, attitude, altitude, exactitude, solicitude, multitude, latitude, longitude, fortitude, gratitude, pulchritude, desuetude and 68 more...
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