finickiness
finickiness — noun
1. the tendency to be extremely concerned with small, often unimportant details — f
the tendency to be extremely concerned with small, often unimportant details — for example, insisting that every item on your desk be perfectly aligned, or refusing to eat food unless it is prepared exactly to your liking
The chef's finickiness about portion sizes delayed the opening of his new restaurant.
collocation: finickiness about [noun phrase]
Mrs. Watanabe's finickiness with her garden meant every leaf was perfectly trimmed.
collocation: finickiness with [noun phrase]
Amara's finickiness annoyed her classmates because she always rearranged their group project.
The interior designer's finickiness over color shades made the project take three extra weeks.
Omar's finickiness about neat handwriting led him to rewrite every page twice.
- fussiness
more general, less formal; often about being difficult to please, especially with food or comfort
- pickiness
informal, common in everyday speech; focuses on rejecting things that do not meet one's standards
- fastidiousness
more neutral or slightly refined; suggests careful attention without the strong negative tone of finickiness
- carelessness
complete opposite — lack of concern for details
- sloppiness
informal; describes untidy or imprecise work or habits
文法句型
possessive + finickiness + about/with/over + noun/gerund
用法筆記
Typically uncountable; often used with a possessive determiner (her finickiness, the director's finickiness). The prepositions about, with, and over are all common — about for general topics (finickiness about food), with for things one personally handles (finickiness with equipment), and over for specific choices (finickiness over color).