THOROUGHNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thoroughness mean? 

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

1. conscientiousness in performing all aspects of a task

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THOROUGHNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conscientiousness in performing all aspects of a task

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

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

Derivation:

thorough (painstakingly careful and accurate)

thorough (performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial)

 Context examples 

That pretence I have carried out with the thoroughness of the true artist.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Leach had evidently done his task with a thoroughness that Mugridge had not forgiven, for words followed and evil names involving smirched ancestries.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"See!" he cried triumphantly. "It's a bona fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella's a regular Belasco. It's a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop too—didn't cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?"

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)