Accuracy vs Diligence - What's the difference?
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The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy? ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.
conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something
A public stage-coach. (19th century, now used only in reference to France or other European countries including Great Britain.)
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(legal, Scotland) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
As nouns the difference between accuracy and diligence
is that accuracy is the state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness while diligence is conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something.accuracy
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(accuracies)Synonyms
* correctness * truthfulnessAntonyms
* inaccuracySee also
* precision * integrity * exactness * fidelityExternal links
*diligence
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(wikipedia diligence)Noun
(en noun)- Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.