thoroughness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈθʌɹənəs/, /ˈθʌɹəʊnəs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈθʌɹoʊnəs/, /ˈθɜɹoʊnəs/
Noun[edit]
thoroughness (usually uncountable, plural thoroughnesses)
- The state of being thorough.
- Attention to detail.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
- Such jobs as weeding, for instance, could be done with a thoroughness impossible to human beings.
Translations[edit]
state of being thorough
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attention to detail
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