Worthless Word for the Day

[teapeebubbles]

the worthless word for the day is: meticulosity

[from meticulous (after curious : curiosity)]
/muh tik yuh LAS ud ee/
the quality or state of being meticulous:
meticulousness

"..unconsciously explaining for inkstands, with a
meticulosity bordering on the insane, the various
meanings of all the different foreign parts of
speech he misused..."
- James Joyce, Finnegan's Wake (1939)

"Pam Wilkinson, editor extraordinaire, and my son
Stuart Calderwood, who canvased the manuscript with
a meticulosity bordering on the insane, have from
many blunder freed me, if not foolish notion."
- James L. Calderwood (1989, Acknowledgment)