precisionist

precisionist

English

Etymology

    From precision + -ist.

    Noun

    precisionist (plural precisionists)

    1. One who values precision.
    2. An artist working in the style of precisionism.
    3. Alternative form of precisianist: precisian; a religious purist or Puritan.

    Usage notes

    • The word precisionist is on the order of 20 times less common than pedant,[1] which is a near-synonym. However, unlike pedant, it is morphologically transparent, pointing to the definition.

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