Crossword clues for fastidiousness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fastidious \Fas*tid"i*ous\,
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[L. fastidiosus disdainful, fr. fastidium loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance (of uncertain origin) + taedium loathing. Cf. Tedious, Fash.] Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world.
--Young.Syn: Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious.
Usage: Fastidious, Squeamish. We call a person fastidious when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty. ``Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish.''
--Crab -- Fas*tid"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Fas*tid"i*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being fastidious
WordNet
n. the trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style; "neatness and fastidiousness of dress"
Usage examples of "fastidiousness".
The professionals one could tell miles off, it was unmistakable: the hard exoskeleton and all the intent personal hatreds, the love of tools, the care, the fastidiousness.
A great iron kettle was filled with water and warmed by heated stones for the company to wash there before eating, the Celts surprising her with their fastidiousness.
It was, in Audrey's view, a strange and almost existential fastidiousness in such a relentlessly cruel creature.
In these days of fastidiousness in all matters of dress the Comte was conspicuous for the carelessness with which he bore himself, and the slight disorder of his clothes.
She blew her nose on a washcloth (she had been out of toilet tissue for a week), tossed her clammy hair, pulled on a lab coat over her underwear, and stepped into the living room cum bedroom cum laboratory where, over an assortment of burners, beakers, and bubbling glass tubing, she would toil with uncharacteristic fastidiousness until dawn.