Roget's Thesaurus

#868. Fastidiousness

Nouns

fastidiousness etc. adj.; nicety, hypercriticism, difficulty in being pleased, friandise [Fr.], epicurism, omnia suspendens naso [Lat.]. epicure, gourmet. [Excess of delicacy] prudery.

Verbs

be fastidious etc. adj.; have a sweet tooth. mince the matter; turn up one's nose at etc. (disdain) 930; look a gift horse in the mouth, see spots on the sun.

Adjectives

fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal [Vulg.], difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned; squeasy, queasy; hard to please, difficult to please; querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous; censorious etc. 932; hypercritical; overcritical.

Phrases

noli me tangere [Lat.].