潔けっ癖ぺき

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

fastidiousness; love of cleanliness

Describes a strong preference for cleanliness and order, often to a meticulous or exacting degree. Can be used as a noun or na-adjective.

彼かれは潔けっ癖ぺきで、部屋へやはいつも完かん璧ぺきに片かた付づいている。
He is fastidious, and his room is always perfectly tidy.
潔けっ癖ぺきな性せい格かくのため、公こう共きょうのトイレを使つかうのを避さける。
Because of her fastidious nature, she avoids using public restrooms.

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Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉は潔けっ癖ぺきだsomeone is fastidious/obsessed with cleanliness
彼かれは潔けっ癖ぺきで、机つくえの上うえにゴミが一ひとつでもあると気きになる。
He's so fastidious that even a single piece of trash on his desk bothers him.
潔けっ癖ぺきすぎるto be excessively fastidious about cleanliness
彼かの女じょは潔けっ癖ぺきすぎて、人ひとの家いえでは何なにも食たべられない。
She's so overly fastidious that she can't eat anything at other people's houses.
潔けっ癖ぺきなところがあるto have a fastidious streak
父ちちには少すこし潔けっ癖ぺきなところがある。
My father has a bit of a fastidious streak.

Kanji

潔undefiled, pure, clean
癖mannerism, habit, vice

Related words

きれい好ずき
綺麗好き is a casual, everyday word for liking cleanliness, while 潔癖 suggests a stricter, almost obsessive need for cleanliness or purity.
几き帳ちょう面めんN1
几帳面 describes methodical precision and orderliness in doing things, whereas 潔癖 specifically focuses on an intense aversion to dirt or impurity.
神しん経けい質しつ
潔癖 focuses narrowly on an obsession with cleanliness or moral purity, while 神経質 covers fussiness about any kind of small detail.

Opposites

ずぼら
ずぼら describes someone sloppy and careless about cleanliness or order, the opposite of the meticulous fussiness of 潔癖.

Don't confuse with

潔けっ白ぱくN1
潔白 shares the kanji 潔 with 潔癖 but means moral innocence or integrity, not a preference for physical cleanliness.
性せい癖へき
潔癖 shares the kanji 癖 with 性癖 but means an obsessive fastidiousness about cleanliness or morals, not a personal inclination or fetish.
潔いさぎよいN1
潔い (gracious, upright) and 潔癖 (obsessively clean, fastidious) share the kanji 潔 but describe very different traits.

Word family

潔けっ癖ぺき性しょう
obsession with cleanliness; fastidiousness
潔けっ癖ぺき症しょう
fastidiousness; fussiness about cleanliness · clean-freak

Written forms

潔けっ癖ぺきUsage99%
Standard kanji spelling.
けっぺきUsage1%

Etymology

Compound of 潔 (purity, cleanliness) and 癖 (habit, tendency). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the spelling is conventionally associated with the meaning of fastidiousness.