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Thoroughness

Thoroughness \Thor"ough*ness\, n. The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.

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thoroughness

n. 1 the state of being thorough 2 attention to detail

WordNet
thoroughness

n. conscientiousness in performing all aspects of a task

Usage examples of "thoroughness".

I decided that the only thing I could do was to watch every detail with excruciating thoroughness.

Miroe moved away from the patrol craft began a path through the mutilated corpses of the mers, inspecting each hide-stripped, bloody form with masochistic thoroughness.

In external beauty, in paper, type, presswork, and binding, and all that belongs to solid and elegant book-making, the volume is a fine specimen of German skill, good taste, and thoroughness.

Its windows, like the ones of the cell, were boarded over, the boards not hastily nailed but screwed down with proper Teutonic thoroughness and the screwheads countersunk.

Scientific thoroughness had prompted the following dissections and now there could be no doubt.

Spiritual intuitions do not facilitate the birthing of further intuitions, and thus a special care and thoroughness is required in the unpacking of this Gift of God, this precious spiritual intuition.

He inspected the newcomers with a thoroughness Gauis Philippus might have used.

They invaded the Income Tax and Tithes Headquarters, disrupted the computer systems with great efficiency and thoroughness, and made their escape in a Hadenman starship.

Uncle Mumford said it had as high a reputation for thoroughness as any similar institution in Missouri ' There was another college higher up on an airy summit--a bright new edifice, picturesquely and peculiarly towered and pinnacled--a sort of gigantic casters, with the cruets all complete.

Professor Angell's instant start on an investigation of the utmost thoroughness was eminently natural.

I closed the door and fixed the latch and Bananas restacked the barricade with methodical thoroughness.

Jamie, making no further protests, had taken me to bcd, where he had completed the business of thawing me out with thoroughness and dispatch.

Jamie, making no further protests, had taken me to bcd, where he had completed the business of thawing me out with thoroughness and dispatch.

And then she was sucked into his hot, hungry, demanding mouth and caressed with a fierce thoroughness that made her want to cry out with surprise and intense pleasure.

In Part I we saw evidence suggesting that the cartographers of an as yet unidentified civilization might have mapped the planet with great thoroughness at an early date.