anal-retentiveness

The anal-retentiveness required to honestly differentiate between navigating an iphone and an android is ridiculous.

Nobody has their display resolution configured correctly in Acrobat except by accident or anal-retentiveness.

I even in my anal-retentiveness about flights rarely arrive more than an hour and a half early.

This is called anal-retentiveness and is very frequent amongst geeks.

The reason most diets fail isn't that the formula doesn't work, it's that most people don't have the willpower and anal-retentiveness to count calories like that.

I can kind of understand the CIA's anal-retentiveness here, regarding mundane company-sponsored activities.

My comment was linking to a page explaining the term anal-retentiveness, which the parent poster clearly isn’t aware of, and is apparently flagged so no one can see it; what are you talking about?

Wikipedia moderation/editor gang continues to set new records for anal-retentiveness and obfuscated motivations but as long as I can keep slurping up enwiki-pages-articles dumps, I'll leave them alone and wish them well.

It is probably true that we have more perfectionist/anal-retentive kind of people, but again they're generally the result of fear rather than enthusiasm or moral, because their anal-retentiveness doesn't necessarily result in quality work.

Handy if you're right brained, a pack rat, like "messy" workspaces or dislike the anal-retentiveness of Getting Things Done.