Punctuality

English

Noun

Punctuality (uncountable)

1. The state of being punctual

Related terms

• point
• punctilious
• punctual
• punctuate
• punctuation

Thesaurus

accuracy, acuity, acuteness, agility, alacrity, alertness, attention, attention to detail, attentiveness, brightness, circumstantiality, clockwork regularity, conscientiousness, constancy, correctness, criticality, criticalness, decisiveness, delicacy, detail, dispatch, evenness, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, expedition, expeditiousness, exquisiteness, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, fussiness, immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, keenness, methodicalness, meticulousness, minuteness, niceness, nicety, nimbleness, particularity, particularness, preciseness, precisianism, precision, promptitude, promptness, punctiliousness, punctualness, quickness, rapidity, readiness, refinement, regularity, repetition, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, sharpness, sleeplessness, smartness, smoothness, speediness, steadiness, strictness, subtlety, summariness, swiftness, systematicalness, uniformity, wakefulness

Translations

state of being punctual

Bulgarian: акуратност (bg) (akurátnost) f. Dutch: stiptheid (nl) French: ponctualité (fr) f. German: Pünktlichkeit (de) f. Italian: puntualità (it) f.

Polish: punktualność (pl) f. Portuguese: pontualidade (pt) f. Romanian: punctualitate (ro) f. Russian: пунктуальность (ru) (punktuál'nost') f. Spanish: punctualidad (es) f.

External links

• Punctuality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Punctuality in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911