释义 |
thoroughness|ˈθʌrənɪs| [f. thorough a. + -ness.] The quality of being thorough or of doing things thoroughly; the condition of being done thoroughly; completeness of execution or treatment; completeness in general, perfectness.
1843Prescott Mexico (1850) I. 152 A book of the highest authority, for the perspicuity, fidelity, and thoroughness, with which the multifarious topics in it are discussed. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. i. vii. §3 The thoroughness of their application to work. 1862Dana Man. Geol. ii. 245 The exception to the thoroughness of the extinction in the Eastern border region. 1897E. K. Chambers in Bookman Jan. 113/1 He has emulated the Teutonic thoroughness without the Teutonic pedantry. |