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Definition of Exactness
1. Noun. The quality of being exact. "A man of great exactitude"
Generic synonyms: Accuracy, Truth
Specialized synonyms: Minuteness, Preciseness, Precision, Trueness
Derivative terms: Exact, Exact
Antonyms: Inexactness
Definition of Exactness
1. n. The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of judgement or deportment.
Definition of Exactness
1. Noun. The state of being exact ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exactness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exactness
Literary usage of Exactness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1891)
"We must be content if we can attain to so much exactness precision in our statement
as the subject before us mated by admits of; for the same degree of ..."
2. A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume, Thomas Hill Green, Thomas Hodge Grose (1882)
"We may judge of them, however, he holds, with various approximations to exactness,
whereas upon the supposition of infinite divisibility, as he ingeniously ..."
3. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1894)
"We may judge of them, however, he holds, with various approximations to exactness,
whereas upon the supposition of infinite divisibility, as he ingeniously ..."
4. The Heroes and Crises of Early Hebrew History from the Creation to the Death by Charles Foster Kent (1908)
"Archaeological exactness of the Joseph Stories. The historical character of the
Joseph stories- is strongly attested by their remarkable archaeological ..."
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