scrupulosity
scrupulosity is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision. The first sacrilege is looked on with horror; but when they have made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires. Dr. H. More. Careful, even to scrupulosity, . . . to keep their Sabbath. South.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- alacrity
- aloof
- aversation
- averseness
- backwardness
- belief
- believe
- conscience
- cynic
- cynical
- cynicism
- deaf
- delicacy
- demur
- disbelieve
- disinclination
- dislike
- disposed
- dissent
- distrust
- distrustful
- doubt
- ear
- faith
- hard
- heretic
- hesitation
- heterodox
- hold
- ignore
- inconvincible
- incredulity
- incredulous
- incredulousness
- indifference
- indisposedness
- indisposition
- indocility
- irreligion
- irresolution
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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