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finickity

adj
/fəˈnɪk.ɪ.ti/UK

Etymology

Possibly a blend of finicky + pernickety

  1. borrowed from pernickety
  2. compounded as finickity — “finicky + pernickety”

Definitions

  1. Fastidious and fussy

    Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.

    • It's great when you've taken the time to have persuade someone to explain to you the ludicrously finickity way it wants a particular command typing in. Very powerful, but not for end-users.
    • We see, then, that some systems can be unreasonably finickity about the use one may make of assumptions for the sake of argument, especially with a rule like the rule of conditional proof.
    • Q62 Mr Bercow: But £86 million is very precise. It is not £85 million, it is not £90 milllion; it is £86 million. […] I am sorry if you think I am being finickity; I am being very finickity about it but I believe rightly.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA