detailist

From detail +‎ -ist.

detailist (plural detailists)

1. A person who is detail-oriented; One who focuses on detail.
   • 1915, Hugo Diemer, Industrial Organization and Management, page 263:

     In cost department work ability as a detailist is exceptionally desirable in the work of making entries.

   • 1920, Francis Anthony Tondorf, Anniversary Tribute to George Martin Kober:

     Dr. Kober has always been a great detailist without being small or petty, a particularist without being narrow or prejudiced.

   • 1996, Larry T. Reynolds, Leonard Lieberman, Race and Other Misadventures, →ISBN:

     He is the scientist, not as particularizer and detailist, but as the forceful synthesizer of a truly vast amount of apparently unrelated objects, events, and structures.

   • 2010, Clinton H. Stagg, The Problemist, →ISBN:

     The whole thing must have been rehearsed many times, for the detailist would overlook no detail.

2. (art) An artist who produces highly detailed work.
   • 1889, The Japan Daily Mail, page 424:

     The simple art of the detailist would compel him to draw every flower that he saw : the suggestive artist, with his more vigorous appeal to the imagination, would get the effect by setting a few in the immediate foreground, and still fewer scattered over the middle distance.

   • 1890, The Photo-beacon - Volume 2, page 86:

     The detailist fills his canvas with work and interest; the full-souled painter concentrates his detail upon a few salient points.

   • 1903, Harper's Monthly Magazine - Volume 107, page 638:

     His canvases are worked over with painstaking care, not as the detailist works to delineate buttons and boot-straps, but for harmonies of tender color and the charm of reflected light.

   • 1915, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Outdoor Sketching, page 62:

     Impressionism is the generalizing of the subject-matter as a whole and the expression of only its salient features. The extreme realist or detailist of the Ruskin type has for years been insisting that a spade was a spade and should be painted to look like a spade; that a spade was not a spade until every nail in the handle and every crack in the blade became apparent.

   • 1915, Country Life in America - Volume 28, page 34:

     But when we come to examine the fundamental reasons for nature's supremacy over all art, even the noblest, we find it in the fact that nature is the transcendent detailist.

detailist (comparative more detailist, superlative most detailist)

1. Detail-oriented
   • 1969, Richard E. Stewart, “The Wages of Fear in Insurance Regulation”, in Ins. Negl. & Comp. L. Proc.:

     The lawyer-like regulatory systems exhibit qualities and flaws not unknown in the parent profession. They are moral and preachy, careful and slow, professional and inbred, studious and detailist.

   • 2015, Carel Stolker, Rethinking the Law School: Education, Research, Outreach and Governance, →ISBN:

     Strengthening these aspects would also free law teaching from too detailist knowledge.

2. Highly detailed.
   • 1964 December, William V. Mayer, “The Impact of Testing on New Curricula”, in The American Biology Teacher, volume 26, number 8:

     This question is not only concerned with detailist information, but in terms of its stem, all answers are correct except kingdoms, for phyla are, indeed, divided into all of the last four categories, even though the student is supposed to ferret out (4) as the immediate sub-division concerned...

   • 2006 January, Evan Cory Horowitz, “Ulysses: Mired in the Universal”, in Modernism/modernity, volume 13, number 1:

     What can be said, though, is that it contains more unplotted detail than its predecessors. It is more vulgar—more detailist—than any prior realism.

   • 2008, Charles Palermo, Fixed Ecstasy: Joan Miró in the 1920s, →ISBN, page xliii:

     I should again say that, when I speak of Miró's sparing use of shadows in his detailist work, I refer to shadow that falls away from the object that casts it, rather than to the shadow that models an object.

• tidalites

Borrowed from French détailliste.

detailist m (plural detailiști)

1. retailer