painstakingness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From painstaking + -ness.
Noun
[edit]painstakingness (uncountable)
- The state or characteristic of being painstaking; the giving of careful attention to details.[1]
- 1993, Joseph Heller, Adam Sorkin, Conversations with Joseph Heller[1], →ISBN, page xii:
- The painstakingness of Heller the craftsman comes through most strongly in these descriptions of the hard work he puts into his novels.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.