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Ladyazh

Ladyazh

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Have you ever used or heard anyone using 'Fastidiousness'?
Is there shorter version more used? Thanks
 
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Shortest word I can think of that's close would be 'anal'. "He's really anal about it".

But perhaps 'fussy' will do (vaguely similar) or maybe 'particular'.
 
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It is not OCD because I WILL take a piece from YOUR plate but not from other guy's. See?
 
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That doesn't mean it isn't OCD.

The compulsions one feels as a result of OCD are not necessarily - heck, rarely - logical.

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Ladyazh,

Do you watch Monk on the USA network? He plays a character with obvious OCD. That might help with explaining it.

OCD and taking food from someone else's plate could be something like they can only take food from the person to their right, or from a woman, or from the person to their right only if they are a woman and their name begins with an L.

As Anotherhiggins pointed out OCD may have no concieveble bearing on reality, or it might be an over-reaction to everyday things. Something like having to wash your hands after you touch a doorknob beause you read that 70% of the baterica and viruses you pick up are from doorknobs/doorhandles.

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Ladyazh said:
...like I will try food from your plate but not from that other person's because...
Click to expand...

...I'm [blue]supper[/blue]stitious.

Or [blue]souper[/blue]stitious.

What's the special again? [smile]

don

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Another form of OCD is the inability to post a reply without making some sort of pun. Now will the real SilentAiche please stand up? <grin>

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Dave,

Confession, I believe, is a Catholic tradition.

Me? I'm a Quaker.

Don L.

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CBL,

You mean, like, [purple]"Wits Quacker?"

Wits Quacker Pi ????[/purple]

Another MATHS forum??!! Round & round we go...

Don,ish

[gray] btw - I've not ever always been a comic... [/gray][bigsmile]



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Sad to say, present-day useage seems to have replaced "fastidiousness" with "finickiness.
 
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Hi Sidtek,

If you've put up with us so far, you can't be too finicky!!

Welcome!
Don

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Ladyazh:
For me, fastidious has always included a sense of a person's being fussily exacting, particularly about his/her appearance or environment. But to describe someone who won't touch a doorknob because of germs, I would use the term squeamish.

According to yourdictionary.com's etymology for the word, fastidious includes the idea of squeamishness:

[Middle English, squeamish, particular, haughty, from Old French [tt]fastidieux[/tt], from Latin [tt]fasitidisus[/tt], from [tt]fasitidium[/tt], squeamishness, haughtiness, probably from [tt]fastus[/tt], disdain.]





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sleipnir,
I am very amazed how two of my questions are answered at once. Thanks so much! I like squeamish!
 
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I like the sound of fastidiosity. I find it easier to pronounce than fastidiousness.

[Cheers]
 
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