Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or character of being thorough; completeness; perfectness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.
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- noun the state of being
thorough - noun
attention todetail
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun conscientiousness in performing all aspects of a task
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet this conception makes thoroughness a purely _quantitative_ matter; it accepts _thoroughness_ as meaning _throughness_ or completeness, signifying the inclusion of everything from "beginning to end," or from "cover to cover."
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Here we express faith in German thoroughness, planning and discipline, on the basis of a single, ambiguous leaked memo, for the alternative is not pleasant to contemplate.
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There is a kind of thoroughness which is almost purely physical: the kind that signifies mechanical and exhausting drill upon all the details of a subject.
democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
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There is a kind of thoroughness which is almost purely physical: the kind that signifies mechanical and exhausting drill upon all the details of a subject.
Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education
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I know the whole western side of it with what, I suppose, I may call thoroughness; well enough at least to testify that there is no square mile without some special character and charm.
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Moreover, his thoroughness is the envy of the students of all other countries, and his hatred of sham scholarship and slipshod generalization is intense.
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On Thursday, details emerged that called the thoroughness of the review, described as
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The important thing is the notion of thoroughness: the indexer must try to anticipate and provide for a variety of users 'needs in an index; users do not seek the same sort of information, and the effort must be made to imagine the uses to which a particular work will be put, then to provide the users with as many access points to the information as can reasonably be expected.
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Some do, and some newspapers stink, but print encourages a kind of thoroughness that the Web does not.
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Are these specialists trying to impress the primary care doctor with their 'thoroughness', so as to keep the referrals coming?
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