fastidiousness
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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
Still, my radically different experience raises the question: By our obsessions and fastidiousness, are we engendering in our kids the very questions we are hellbent to prevent?
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022
The dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham rears up “like a furry old faun”; the gallerist Leo Castelli has a Felix Unger-ish fastidiousness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2021
She remembers her husband’s fastidiousness, his war against germs.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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