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What is the adjective for finickiness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb finick which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

finicky
  1. (informal) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
  2. (informal) Demanding, requiring above-normal care.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “You may be too easily irritated or despondent, exasperating friends and family with exacting demands and finicky attitudes.”
      “The coherer was very finicky and unreliable in operation, so there was a vigorous search for an alternative.”
      “A beautiful, well constructed, accurate but finicky handgun is really not an option.”
finickity
  1. Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.
finical
  1. (college slang) Finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She said to herself that this was no time or place for finical delicacy.”
      “There is nothing finical or foppish about the conventions which Mr. Harcourt undertakes to codify and explain.”
      “Trust the precise and finical Teutons, she thought, to compress so broad a concept into a single handy term.”
finickety
  1. (colloquial) finicky; picky
finicking
  1. finical
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Deeply attached to old values, and seeing the rapidly changing world about him through the distorting lens of a pedantic and snobbish literary tradition, Libanius was vain, petty, and wrapped in finicking antiquarianism.”
finickier
finickiest
  1. superlative form of finicky: most finicky
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Even the finickiest of readers will find something to enjoy in this selection of graphic novels.”
      “For instance, some languages, like Matses in Peru, oblige their speakers, like the finickiest of lawyers, to specify exactly how they came to know about the facts they are reporting.”
      “Apart from a minor misjudgement of Kempton's first fence, it would demand the finickiest of nitpicking to find fault with his King George VI Chase win.”
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