Meanings
nounfastidity (uncountable)
- uncountableFastidiousness
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
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fastidity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fastidity
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“fastidity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fastidity. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fastidity,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fastidity.
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