pickiness

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noun

picky behaviour

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounpickiness (uncountable)

alternative pickyness

  1. uncountablepicky behaviour
    1 more example

    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, she said, when “they’re also learning autonomy and control.”

    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. uncountableThe quality of being picky.

Origin

  1. Englishpick
  2. Englishpicky
  3. Englishpickiness

From picky + -ness.

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Chicago

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