precisionist

== 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, which is a near-synonym. However, unlike pedant, it is morphologically transparent, pointing to the definition. ==== Translations ==== === See also === Thesaurus:pedant === References === === 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.