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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers |
| Section II. Personal Affections |
| 3. Prospective Affections |
| 868. Fastidiousness. |
| NOUN: | FASTIDIOUSNESS &c. adj.; nicety, meticulosity, hypercriticism, difficulty in being pleased; friandise [F.], epicurism, omnia suspendens naso [L.]. DISCRIMINATION, discernment, perspicacity, perspicaciousness [rare], keenness, sharpness, insight. EPICURE, gourmet. [EXCESS OF DELICACY] prudery, prudishness, primness. |
| VERB: | BE FASTIDIOUS &c. adj.; split hairs; hunt for the crumpled rose-leaf. mince the matter; turn up one’s nose at (disdain) [See Contempt]; look a gift horse in the mouth, see spots on the sun; see the mote in one’s brother’s eye. DISCRIMINATE, have nice discrimination; have exquisite taste; be discriminative &c. adj. |
| ADJECTIVE: | FASTIDIOUS, nice, delicate, délicat [F.]; meticulous, finicking or finicky or finikin, exacting, finical; difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thinskinned; queasy; hard -, difficult- to please; querulous; particular, scrupulous; censorious [See Disapprobation]; hypercritical; overcritical. PRUDISH, strait-laced, prim. DISCRIMINATIVE, discriminating, discerning, discriminant [rare], judicious, keen, sharp, perspicacious. |
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