fastidiousness
noun
fastidiousness is a noun meaning “The quality of being fastidious” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-S-T-I-D-I-O-U-S-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fastidiousness mean?
noun
- 1
The quality of being fastidious.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fastidiousness?
- General-American
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fastidiousness.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is fastidiousness?
Fastidiousness appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fastidiousness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense quality of being fastidious:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Pingeligkeit, Kleinlichkeit, Pedanterie, Zimperlichkeit |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fastidiousness come from?
From fastidious + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).