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fastidity

fastidity noun: fastidiousness.

Noun

fastidity (uncountable)

  1. Fastidiousness
    • They revived, and reviled memories of other ships - other voyages, with masters whose fanatical fastidity for whitened decks had kept them bowed above "sailors' bibles" for weeks of back breaking toil.1945, Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, Horwit Publications, page 102

Origin of fastidity

From fastidious + -ity.

Questions about fastidity

What does fastidity mean?
Fastidity means fastidiousness.
What part of speech is fastidity?
Fastidity is a noun.

Words near fastidity in the dictionary

  1. fastidiosity
  2. fastidious
  3. fastidious organism
  4. fastidiously
  5. fastidiousness
  6. fastidity
  7. fastidium
  8. fastigia
  9. fastigial
  10. fastigiate
  11. fastigiated

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