detailist means detail-oriented. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From detail + -ist.
adj
- Detail-oriented“The lawyer-like regulatory systems exhibit qualities and flaws not unknown in the parent profession. They are moral and preachy, careful and slow, professional and inbred, studious and detailist.”
- Highly detailed.“This question is not only concerned with detailist information, but in terms of its stem, all answers are correct except kingdoms, for phyla are, indeed, divided into all of the last four categories, even though the student is supposed to ferret out (4) as the immediate sub-division concerned...”
noun
- A person who is detail-oriented; One who focuses on detail.“In cost department work ability as a detailist is exceptionally desirable in the work of making entries.”
- An artist who produces highly detailed work.“The simple art of the detailist would compel him to draw every flower that he saw : the suggestive artist, with his more vigorous appeal to the imagination, would get the effect by setting a few in the immediate foreground, and still fewer scattered over the middle distance.”