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  1. Attentiveness to detail: care, carefulness, fastidiousness, meticulousness, pain (used in plural), painstaking, scrupulousness, thoroughness. See careful/careless.
  2. Strict observance of social conventions: ceremoniousness, ceremony, formality, protocol. See courtesy/discourtesy.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: strict attention to minute details
  Synonyms: meticulousness, meticulosity, scrupulousness

 
 
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Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (person)

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