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• n  strict attention to minute details

• The most spectacular example of this new punctiliousness is the case of Robert Massie, author of the 1967 bestseller Nicholas and Alexandra.
• Then, with equal punctiliousness, she pays some boys to give her car a push so that she can sail off a cliff in it.
• But this punctiliousness, this refusal to inflate, grants it a large measure of persuasive power.

• meticulousness
• meticulosity
• scrupulousness