punctuality

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
punctuality
    n 1: the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time [syn:
         {punctuality}, {promptness}] [ant: {tardiness}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Punctuality \Punc`tu*al"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. ponctualit['e].]
   The quality or state of being punctual; especially, adherence
   to the exact time of an engagement; exactness.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "punctuality":
      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

    

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