fastidity en · NOUN
Etymology
From fastidious + -ity.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Fastidiousness
They revived, and reviled memories of other ships - other voyages, with masters whose fanatical fastidity for whitened decks had kept them bowed above "sailors' bibles" for weeks of back breaking toil.
1945, Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, Horwit Publications, page 102: