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FASTIDIOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fastidiousness mean?
• FASTIDIOUSNESS (noun)
The noun FASTIDIOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. the trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style
Familiarity information: FASTIDIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
neatness and fastidiousness of dress
Hypernyms ("fastidiousness" is a kind of...):
cleanliness (diligence in keeping clean)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fastidiousness"):
squeamishness (the trait of being excessively fastidious and easily shocked)
Derivation:
fastidious (giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness)
Context examples
I thought it a certain silly fastidiousness on my part, but it persisted in spite of me, and I merely shrugged my shoulders in answer.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He swiftly lost the fastidiousness which had characterized his old life.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
No second attachment, the only thoroughly natural, happy, and sufficient cure, at her time of life, had been possible to the nice tone of her mind, the fastidiousness of her taste, in the small limits of the society around them.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
When my uncle spoke like this there was always that dancing, mischievous light in his dark blue eyes, which showed me that this humour of his was a conscious eccentricity, depending, as I believe, upon a natural fastidiousness of taste, but wilfully driven to grotesque lengths for the very reason which made him recommend me also to develop some peculiarity of my own.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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