PRECISENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preciseness mean? 

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

1. clarity as a consequence of precision

2. the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance

  Familiarity information: PRECISENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRECISENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clarity as a consequence of precision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

clearcutness; preciseness

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

clarity; clearness; limpidity; lucidity; lucidness; pellucidity (free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression)

Derivation:

precise (sharply exact or accurate or delimited)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being reproducible in amount or performance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

preciseness; precision

Context example:

note the meticulous precision of his measurements

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

exactitude; exactness (the quality of being exact)

Antonym:

impreciseness (the quality of lacking precision)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

Miss Crawford found a sister without preciseness or rusticity, a sister's husband who looked the gentleman, and a house commodious and well fitted up; and Mrs. Grant received in those whom she hoped to love better than ever a young man and woman of very prepossessing appearance.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)