Scrupulousness

Definitions: Scrupulousness

Scrupulousness

Noun

1. Conformity to high standards of ethics or excellence.

2. Strict attention to minute details.

Date "scrupulousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Synonyms: Scrupulousness

Synonyms: meticulosity (n), meticulousness (n), punctiliousness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: unscrupulousness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Probity	Punctilio, delicacy, nicety; scrupulosity, scrupulousness; Adjective: scruple; point, point of honor; punctuality.
Unwillingness	Scrupulousness, scrupulosity; qualms of conscience, twinge of conscience; delicacy, demur, scruple, qualm, shrinking, recoil; hesitation; (irresolution); fastidiousness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Scrupulousness

English words defined with "scrupulousness": Overscrupulousness. (references)

"Scrupulousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scrupulousness" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

Language		Translations for "scrupulousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏تدقيق (canvass, thoroughness, timing). (various references)

Czech		peèlivost (carefulness, solicitude, thoroughness). (various references)

Finnish		tunnontarkkuus (conscientiousness, meticulousness). (various references)

French		scrupules, minutie. (various references)

German		Bedenken (bethink, compunction, consider, consideration, consult, demur, doubt, mental reservation, misgiving, preconceive, qualm, qualms, reflect, reflect on, reflection, remember, reservation, scruple, scrupulosity, take into consideration, think, think about, think on). (various references)

Greek		ευσυνειδησία (conscientiousness, righteousness, scrupulosity), ακριβολογία (nicety, pricision, punctilio, scrupulosity). (various references)

Hungarian		aggályoskodás (meticulosity). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		念入れ (care, conscientiousness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ね�"いれ (care, conscientiousness). (various references)

Pig Latin		upulousnessscray

Romanian		scrupulozitate (delicacy, nicety, scrupulosity), minuţiozitate (scrupulosity), migalã (carefulness, scrupulosity), grijã (alarm, anxiety, attention, care, carefulness, charge, chariness, conscientiousness, custody, deliberation, foresight, harassment, mindfulness, neatness, observance, painstaking, scrupulosity, solicitude, thought, trouble, worriment, worry), conştiinciozitate (conscientiousness, scrupulosity). (various references)

Russian		добросовестность (bona fides, scrupulosity). (various references)

Spanish		escrupulosidad (conscientiousness, niceness, queasiness), escrúpulos. (various references)

Turkish		vicdanlılık, titizlik (daintiness, fastidiousness, fussiness, meticulousness, niceness, nicety, particularity, peevishness, punctilio, rigor, rigour, thoroughness). (various references)

Turkmen		зьmhцreklik (legibility). (various references)

Ukranian		скрупульозність (nicety), чесність (fair dealing, faithfulness, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, probity, rectitude, scrupulosity, sincerity, straightforwardness, straightness, uprightness), бездоганність (immaculacy, impeccability, scrupulosity). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự ngại ngùng (scruple), sự đắn đo (calculation, scruple), tính quá thận trọng (overcaution), tính quá tỉ mỉ (overniceness, overnicety). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "scrupulousness": scrupulousnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "scrupulousness": unscrupulousness. (additional references)
	Words containing "scrupulousness": unscrupulousnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-l-n-o-p-r-s-s-s-s-u-u-u"
	-4 letters: pronucleus, scrupulous, sourpusses, suspensors, uncouplers.
	-5 letters: crossness, opuscules, surpluses, suspensor, uncoupler, uncouples, uncrosses.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-l-n-o-p-r-s-s-s-s-u-u-u"
	+2 letters: scrupulousnesses, unscrupulousness.
	+4 letters: unscrupulousnesses.
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