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Webster 1828 Edition


Fastidiousness

FASTID'IOUSNESS

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Noun.
Disdainfulness; contemptuousness; squeamishness of mind, taste or appetite.

Definition 2024


fastidiousness

fastidiousness

English

Noun

fastidiousness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being fastidious.
    • 1974, Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul, Pocket Books, New York, page 30
      A sense of fastidiousness made the doctor choose the left side, near the door, when he slept in it himself with Clara.