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pickyness

pickyness is the alternative spelling of pickiness.

Meaning of pickiness

Noun

pickiness (uncountable)

  1. picky behaviour
    • Between 6 and 12 months, babies are more open to new foods — and new experiences — than they will be later on as toddlers, when a certain amount of “neophobia” or “new means no” is developmentally normal, Ms. Lipner said. “Normal kids transition through a normal pickiness phase,” around 18 months...2018 June 4, Perri Klass, M.D., “When New Means No: Picky Eating as a Normal Toddler Phase”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2018
  2. The quality of being picky.

Origin of pickyness

From picky + -ness.

Questions about pickyness

What is pickyness the alternative spelling of?
Pickyness is the alternative spelling of pickiness.

Words near pickyness in the dictionary

  1. picky heads
  2. picky plate
  3. picky plates
  4. picky tea
  5. picky teas
  6. pickyness
  7. piclamilast
  8. piclonidine
  9. piclopastine
  10. picloram
  11. picloxydine

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