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Definition of "scrupulosity" [scru•pu•los•i•ty]

  • The property of being scrupulous. (noun)

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Use "scrupulosity" in a sentence
  • "The whole idea of scrupulosity is very foreign to me."
  • "I think you have done well in avoiding the topic altogether; but between ourselves, do you really think that the refinement of manner, the censorious, hypocritical, verbal scrupulosity, which is carried so far in this "picked age" of ours, is a true sign of superior refinement of taste, and purity of morals?"
  • "It was the first long autobiographical work to appear in underground comics, and was extremely personal, detailing Green's childhood struggle with a disorder which in Catholicism is referred to as scrupulosity and was later diagnosed as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)."