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English
Noun
pickyness (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of pickiness
1932 October 20, S. E. Spicer, “Politics And Powder-Puffs”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume XCII, number 194, page 12:Step into one of the smart clothes shop and it will surprise you to see the “pickyness” of men.
1962, Alice L. Voiland and associates, “The Egocentric Family”, in Family Casework Diagnosis, New York, N.Y., London: Columbia University Press, →LCCN, page 209:Outstanding examples are demandingness or “pickyness” about food, overeating, deliberate embarrassment of parents in public by boisterous behavior, defecating on a neighbor’s floor, running away in a rainstorm.
1963 June 20, George Dixon, “Washington Scene”, in Berwick Enterprise, volume 61, number 64, Berwick, Pa.:One piece of pickyness is apt to lead to another.