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Painstaking vs Thoroughness - What's the difference?

painstaking | thoroughness |

As nouns the difference between painstaking and thoroughness

is that painstaking is the application of careful and attentive effort while thoroughness is the state of being thorough.

As an adjective painstaking

is carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure.

painstaking

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure.
  • * Harris
    • All these painstaking men, considered together, may be said to have completed another species of criticism.

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * painstakingly, painstakingness

    Noun

  • The application of careful and attentive effort.
  • *, II.10:
  • *:I esteeme Bocace'' his ''Decameron'', ''Rabelais'', and the kisses of ''John the second (if they may be placed under this title) worth the paines-taking to reade them.
  • * (Thomas Chalmers)
    • It is not by a flight of imagination that you gain the ascents of spiritual experience. It is by the toils and the watchings and the painstakings of a solid obedience.
  • * (Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham)
    • Behold what an abundant recompense attends the small processes of the earth, with the help of a little warm air; and what wealthy returns the industry of the husbandman and the florist is preparing from a few seeds and painstakings .

    thoroughness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • the state of being thorough
  • attention to detail
  • *
    • Such jobs as weeding, for instance, could be done with a thoroughness impossible to human beings.