precisionist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English precision

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English precisionist

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, which is a near-synonym. However, unlike pedant, it is morphologically transparent, pointing to the definition.

Translations

one who values precision

• Bulgarian: педант (bg) m (pedant)
• Greek: ακριβολόγος (el) m (akrivológos)

See also

• Thesaurus:pedant

Further reading

• “precisionist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “precisionist”, in Merriam-Webster.com 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.