fastidiousness

  • 121meticulousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Attentiveness to detail: care, carefulness, fastidiousness, pain (used in plural), painstaking, punctiliousness, scrupulousness, thoroughness. See CAREFUL …

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  • 122punctiliousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Attentiveness to detail: care, carefulness, fastidiousness, meticulousness, pain (used in plural), painstaking, scrupulousness, thoroughness. See CAREFUL. 2. Strict observance of social conventions: ceremoniousness …

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  • 123scrupulousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Attentiveness to detail: care, carefulness, fastidiousness, meticulousness, pain (used in plural), painstaking, punctiliousness, thoroughness. See CAREFUL …

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  • 124thoroughness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Attentiveness to detail: care, carefulness, fastidiousness, meticulousness, pain (used in plural), painstaking, punctiliousness, scrupulousness. See CAREFUL …

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  • 125Disapprobation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Disapprobation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 disapprobation disapprobation disapproval Sgm: N 1 improbation improbation Sgm: N 1 disesteem disesteem disvaluation displacency Sgm: N 1 odium odium Sgm: N 1 …

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  • 126fastidious — fas|tid|i|ous [fæˈstıdiəs] adj [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: fastidiosus, from fastidium strong dislike ] very careful about small details in your appearance, work etc = ↑meticulous ▪ people who are fastidious about personal hygiene and… …

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  • 127Crespo, Angel — b. 1926, Ciudad Real; d. 1995, Barcelona    Poet, critic and translator    In his first two volumes, Una lengua emerge (A Language Emerges) and Quedan señales (Signs Remain), published in the early 1950s, Crespo established himself as a highly… …

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  • 128Tellado, Corín — b. 1927, Viavélez (Asturias)    Romantic novelist    The most successful and prominent exponent of the genre of the novela rosa, María del Socorro Tellado began to compose romantic fiction in 1946 at the age of 19, and in 1998, though no longer… …

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