fastidiousness

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The overwhelming public perception of OCD is that it is an obsession with cleaning, tidying and symmetry, a fastidiousness seen in characters like Monica Geller from Friends.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

In matters of law, however, isn’t fastidiousness — concern for accuracy and detail — what you want?

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2022

The dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham rears up “like a furry old faun”; the gallerist Leo Castelli has a Felix Unger-ish fastidiousness.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s public projections of a “satirical image of masculine vigor” he writes, were curated “with the fastidiousness of a teenager on Instagram.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2020

She remembers her husband’s fastidiousness, his war against germs.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García