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EXACTNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being exact
Example:
a man of great exactitude
Synonyms:
exactitude; exactness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("exactness" is a kind of...):
accuracy; truth (the quality of being near to the true value)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exactness"):
minuteness (great precision; painstaking attention to details)
preciseness; precision (the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance)
trueness (exactness of adjustment)
Antonym:
inexactness (the quality of being inexact)
Derivation:
exact ((of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct)
exact (marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact)
Context examples:
As the common size of the natives is somewhat under six inches high, so there is an exact proportion in all other animals, as well as plants and trees: for instance, the tallest horses and oxen are between four and five inches in height, the sheep an inch and half, more or less: their geese about the bigness of a sparrow, and so the several gradations downwards till you come to the smallest, which to my sight, were almost invisible; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view: they see with great exactness, but at no great distance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
