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Definition of Exactness

Exactness

  1. The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment.
  2. Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business.

Exactness Quotations

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
Niklaus Wirth

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Francois Fenelon

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
Rene Daumal

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Hugh Blair
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Exactness Translations

exactness in Dutch is nauwkeurigheid, stiptheid, precisie
exactness in Spanish is exactitud

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