fastidious
adjective
excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please.
fastidiousness
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a word derived from
fastidious.
Example Sentences
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My new fastidiousness is a surprise side effect of postretirement downsizing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
The overwhelming public perception of OCD is that it is an obsession with cleaning, tidying and symmetry, a fastidiousness seen in characters like Monica Geller from Friends.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
That fastidiousness has not stopped the lexical war over his work in recent months, as judges across the country read opposite meanings into “rebellion.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
CHERNIHIV, Ukraine — It was Yulia Hrebnyeva’s fastidiousness that saved the lives of her family.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2022
She remembers her husband’s fastidiousness, his war against germs.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
