Scrutiny is when you look at something really closely, like when you are checking a test for mistakes. Scrutiny can also be an intense look, like when your mother looks at you trying to tell if you might be lying.
Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.
Noun
the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
Noun
a prolonged intense look
n.
Close examination; minute inspection; critical
observation.
n.
An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent,
who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
n.
A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is
written.
n.
An examination by a committee of the votes given at an
election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
v. t.
To scrutinize.
Scrutiny
They that have designed exactness and deep scrutiny have taken some one part of nature.
Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view And narrower scrutiny.2.
Scrutiny
Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.
To scrutinize.
Usage Examples
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Other Usage ExamplesArt is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.
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