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scrupulosities

scrupulosities is the plural of scrupulosity.

Meaning of scrupulosity

Noun

scrupulosity (countable and uncountable, plural scrupulosities)

  1. The property of being scrupulous; excessive attention to scruples.
    • So then the whole scripture of God, being true, whence soever this be delivered and gathered, it skilleth not: And it is of us to be taken without curious scrupulosity, as sacred and undoubted scripture, seeing it was written by the holy apostle, into whom the holy Ghost was inspired, as is...1592, Richard Turnbull, An Exposition upon the Canonicall Epistle of Saint Jude, London: John Windet, Sermon 5, p. 67
    Synonyms:
    scrupulousness
  2. A mental disorder, generally considered a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), characterized by excessive concern with moral or religious matters

Questions about scrupulosities

What is scrupulosities the plural of?
Scrupulosities is the plural of scrupulosity.

Words near scrupulosities in the dictionary

  1. scrupulists
  2. scrupulize
  3. scrupulized
  4. scrupulizes
  5. scrupulizing
  6. scrupulosities
  7. scrupulosity
  8. scrupulous
  9. scrupulously
  10. scrupulousness
  11. scrupulousnesses

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