finickiness

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fin·ick·y (f

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adj. fin·ick·i·er, fin·ick·i·est

Insisting capriciously on getting just what one wants; difficult to please; fastidious: a finicky eater.

[From finick, a finical person, from finical.]

finick·i·ness n.

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finickiness

n (of person) → Pingeligkeit f (inf); (about language also) → Haarspalterei f; (of task) → Kniff(e)ligkeit f (inf); because of his finickiness about what he eats → weil er so wählerisch beim Essen ist

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It would make a great difference in the drainage, but a new plowman might think this finickiness and just go ahead and plow all of it north and south, or all of it east and west and this would result in a lower yield--some parts of the field would get soggy and the wheat might get a rust, and other parts drain too readily, letting the ground become parched and break into cakes, all of which might be prevented.

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