as in finickiness
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Recent Examples of fastidiousness
Or is this a kind of fastidiousness of yours?
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Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
The filmmaking is precise and refined, but free of the self-conscious fastidiousness that often passes for style on the international festival circuit.
—Jon Frosch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
The filmmaking is precise and refined, but free of the self-conscious fastidiousness that often passes for style on the international festival circuit.
—Jon Frosch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fastidiousness
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With a daintiness at odds with its 120 kilos, the bear extricates its wrist from the tie and calmly takes its leave.—
Ganesh Marín,
The Dial,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The framers did not distribute war powers this way out of procedural fussiness.—
Jon Duffy,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Flu can impact children differently and present more general symptoms like irritability and general fussiness, or ear and stomach pain.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
2 Jan. 2026
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“Fastidiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fastidiousness. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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