fastidiosity
English edit
Noun edit
fastidiosity (usually uncountable, plural fastidiosities)
- (obsolete) fastidiousness (the quality of being fastidious).
- 1704, [Jonathan Swift], A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC:
- he receives much greater advantage by being diverted than instructed; his epidemical diseases being fastidiosity, amorphy, and oscitation
References edit
- “fastidiosity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.