Crossword clues for conscientiousness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conscientiousness \Con`sci*en"tious*ness\, n. The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.
Wiktionary
n. The state or characteristic of being conscientious.
WordNet
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]
Wikipedia
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 to show self-discipline, act dutifully, and aim for achievement; they display planned rather than spontaneous behavior; and they are generally organized and dependable. They have a more functional anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) than the average person. It is manifested in characteristic behaviors such as being neat and systematic; also including such elements as carefulness, thoroughness, and deliberation (the tendency to think carefully before acting.) Conscientiousness is one of the five traits of the Five Factor Model of personality and is an aspect of what has traditionally been referred to as having character. Conscientious individuals are generally hard-working and reliable. They are also likely to be conformists. When taken to an extreme, they may also be " workaholics", perfectionists, and compulsive in their behavior. People who score low on conscientiousness tend to be laid back, less goal-oriented, and less driven by success; they also are more likely to engage in antisocial and criminal behavior.
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.