fastidiousness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree English fastidious Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English fastidiousness From fastidious + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being fastidious.
A sense of fastidiousness made the doctor choose the left side, near the door, when he slept in it himself with Clara.
1974, Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul, New York: Pocket Books, page 30:I told him of the night I had seen her standing with bare feet in the garden, on the frosted lawn.Yes, he said, that was the sort of thing she did. But she had a fastidiousness, a certain personal reticence, that he respected. He never intruded upon it.
1952, Daphne Du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree:
Translations (14)
el ακριβολογία (quality of being fastidious) · de Pingeligkeit (quality of being fastidious) · ga beaichte (quality of being fastidious) · pl skrupulatność (quality of being fastidious) · pl drobiazgowość (quality of being fastidious) · ga nósúlacht (quality of being fastidious) · de Kleinlichkeit (quality of being fastidious) · ga beadaíocht (quality of being fastidious) · de Zimperlichkeit (quality of being fastidious) · lt smulkmeniškùmas (quality of being fastidious) · de Pedanterie (quality of being fastidious) · de Pingeligkeit (quality of being fastidious) · ga consaeit (quality of being fastidious) · is gikksháttur (quality of being fastidious)