fastidiousness.

1. Great care over detail, quality, or cleanliness, with little tolerance for imperfections.

2. A tendency to reject things because they seem unpleasant, improper, or insufficiently refined.

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Words that belong together

• professional fastidiousness
• fastidiousness about detail
• meticulous fastidiousness

On the page

Her fastidiousness showed in the alignment of the labels, not in the price of the furniture.

The restorer’s fastidiousness delayed the work but saved the damaged inscription.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.