squeamishness

  • 71fastidiousness — noun the trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style neatness and fastidiousness of dress • Derivationally related forms: ↑fastidious • Hypernyms: ↑cleanliness • Hyponyms: ↑squeamishness …

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  • 72overnice — adjective excessively fastidious and easily disgusted too nice about his food to take to camp cooking so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow • Syn: ↑dainty, ↑nice, ↑prissy, ↑squeamish • Similar to: ↑ …

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  • 73squeamish — adj. 1 easily nauseated or disgusted. 2 fastidious or overscrupulous in questions of propriety, honesty, etc. Derivatives: squeamishly adv. squeamishness n. Etymology: ME var. of squeamous (now dial.), f. AF escoymos, of unkn. orig …

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  • 74fastidium — dēəm noun ( s) Etymology: Latin more at fastidious : a mood of scornful distaste; also : squeamishness …

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  • 75quea|si|ly — «KWEE zuh lee», adverb. in a queasy manner; with squeamishness …

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  • 76quea|si|ness — «KWEE zee nihs», noun. 1. = nausea. (Cf. ↑nausea) 2. uneasiness or disgust. 3. squeamishness …

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  • 77sick|ness — «SIHK nihs», noun. 1. a) the condition of being sick; poor health; illness; disease. b) a particular disease as the cause of this; ailment; malady. 2. nausea; vomiting. SYNONYM( …

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  • 78BREAD — (Heb. לֶחֶם, leḥem), a baked commodity from a cereal flour. The primary sense of leḥem is food in general (Gen. 37:25; Num. 28:2; I Kings 5:2; etc.). The Ugaritic lḥm has the same general sense and the same particular sense, while the Arabic… …

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