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Noun: scrupulosity  ,skroop-yu'ló-si-tee
  1. Extreme conscientiousness or obsessive moral or ethical behaviour
    "His scrupulosity led him to agonize over every decision"
     
  2. (psychology) a form of OCD involving religious or moral obsessions
    "Her scrupulosity caused her to confess repeatedly for imagined sins"

Derived forms: scrupulosities

Encyclopedia: Scrupulosity