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Fastidious vs Finikin - What's the difference?

fastidious | finikin |

As adjectives the difference between fastidious and finikin

is that fastidious is excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness while finikin is excessively dainty or fastidious.

As a noun finikin is

alternative form of lang=en.

fastidious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
  • * 2008 , Robert Fisher, Memory Road , [http://books.google.com/books?id=TGyAvuZt5VoC&pg=PA37&dq=his+fastidious+nature+clean&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4WCLUNmDLbPF0AGpmoDgDQ&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBQ]:
    • His fastidious nature had been evident in his careful snipping of a customer's hair and now he guided his pencil with the same adroitness.
  • * 2004 , Maria Osborne Perr, Ravished Wings , [http://books.google.com/books?id=GEno70HQAQgC&pg=PA153&dq=his+fastidious+nature+clean&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4WCLUNmDLbPF0AGpmoDgDQ&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAw]:
    • As she cleaned the room daily, she knew it was against his fastidious nature to bring or have food in his room.
  • * 2003 , Lynsay Sands, Single White Vampire :
  • * He had at first tried to clean up as they ate, his fastidious nature kicking in, but Chris had told him to just stop, he was blocking the TV.
  • Difficult to please; quick to find fault.
  • * 1897 , ,
    • "It's burn[t], M'sieur," said Marie Louise, politely, but decidedly, to the utter confusion of Mr. Billy, who was as mortified as could be at the failure of his dinner to please his fastidious little visitor.
  • * 1881 , ,
    • You're too fastidious, and too indolent, and too rich.

    Synonyms

    * (excessively particular) exacting, fussy, meticulous * See also

    See also

    * finicky

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    finikin

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dated) Excessively dainty or fastidious.
  • * {{quote-book, c. 1745, year_published=1890, author=, editor=Moncure D. Conway, title=George Washington's Rules of Civility citation
    • , passage=Have a great regard for the cleanliness of your hands, but do not be finikin about it.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Henry W. Nevinson, title=Essays in Rebellion, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Artifice and imitation reveal the finikin or uncertain soul as surely as deliberate bareness reveals a conscious austerity. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)