finickiness
finickiness — 名詞
1. the tendency to be extremely concerned with small, often unimportant details — f
挑剔
過度講究細節的傾向
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.
主廚對份量大小的挑剔，拖延了他新餐廳的開幕時間。
collocation: finickiness about [noun phrase]
Mrs. Watanabe's finickiness with her garden meant every leaf was perfectly trimmed.
渡邊太太對花園的挑剔，讓每一片葉子都修剪得完美無缺。
collocation: finickiness with [noun phrase]
Amara's finickiness annoyed her classmates because she always rearranged their group project.
Amara 的挑剔讓同學們很困擾，因為她總是把小組報告重新排列。
The interior designer's finickiness over color shades made the project take three extra weeks.
室內設計師對色調的挑剔，讓這個案子多花了三個星期。
Omar's finickiness about neat handwriting led him to rewrite every page twice.
Omar 對字跡工整的挑剔，讓他每頁都重寫了兩次。
- 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).