[f. next + -ISM.] Finical affectation.
1844. N. Brit. Rev., II. 65. Notwithstanding of this theatrical finicism, he was always himself again before an audience; nothing being strong enough to stifle or repress his native sincerity and earnestness of soul.
1861. Temple Bar Mag., VI. Aug., 132. There was no finicism in the Author of Waverley.