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English
Etymology
From precision + -ist.
Noun
precisionist (plural precisionists)
- One who values precision.
- An artist working in the style of precisionism.
- 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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Further reading
- “precisionist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “precisionist”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “precisionist”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.