Conscientiousness Synonyms and Antonyms

The trait of being painstaking and careful
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. scrupulousness
  2. pains
  3. exactitude
  4. punctiliousness
  5. dutifulness
  6. faithfulness
  7. mindfulness
  8. steadfastness
  9. veracity
  10. painstakingness
  11. uprightness
  12. honor
  13. meticulousness
  14. incorruptibility
Antonyms:
  1. negligence
  2. indifference
  3. unconscientiousness
  4. nonchalance
The quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience
(Noun)
Antonyms:
  1. unconscientiousness

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Conscientiousness Sentence Examples

  • He was also a man of great moral conscientiousness, and as far as intention went perfectly disinterested.

  • But the elector John George III., at whose personal desire the post had been offered to him, was soon offended at the fearless conscientiousness with which his chaplain sought to discharge his pastoral duties.

  • This cult was a positive duty binding on the children of a dead man, and doubtless as a rule discharged by them with some regularity and conscientiousness; at least, on feast-days offerings would be brought to the tomb, and the ceremonies of purification and opening the mouth of the deceased would be enacted.

  • He had already given several proofs of his noble but overscrupulous conscientiousness, and at the same time of a propensity to paradox.

  • His characterizations of Cyril and Nestorius, and his narrative and criticism of the beginnings of the Christological controversy, are models of candour and historical conscientiousness.

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