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The quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience
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conscientiousness
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or characteristic of being conscientious.
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Conscientiousness is the personality trait of being thorough , careful , or vigilant . Conscientiousness implies a desire to do a task well. Conscientious people are efficient and organized as opposed to easy-going and disorderly . They exhibit a tendency ...
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n. the quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience [ant: unconscientiousness ] the trait of being painstaking and careful [syn: painstakingness ] [ant: unconscientiousness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conscientiousness \Con`sci*en"tious*ness\, n. The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.
Usage examples of conscientiousness.
With absentminded conscientiousness Bran rinsed out the teapot and left it neatly inverted on the draining-board.
I was willing to carry out with utmost conscientiousness the tiresome duty of recorder of senatorial proceedings.
It did not matter that Bearden, by slacking off --whether consciously or because she was dissipating her energy -- was surely destroying her own chances for a career in the field, while Wheeler's conscientiousness would surely pay handsome dividends in both a scientific and a professional sense.
Among them we may occasionally see some man of deep conscientiousness, and subtile and refined understanding, who spends a life in sophisticating with an intellect which he cannot silence, and exhausts the resources of ingenuity in attempting to reconcile the promptings of his conscience and reason with orthodoxy, which yet he does not, perhaps, to the end succeed in doing.