Why this word is great
FAYNSHMEKER — [Noun] A person of fastidious and discriminating taste, particularly in matters of food or aesthetics. Borrowed from Yiddish פֿײַנשמעקער (faynshmeker), from German Feinschmecker, a compound of fein ("fine") and Schmecker ("taster"). Unlike a gourmet, who delights in the refined, or a pedant, who clings to arid rules, the faynshmeker is defined by a curatorial dissatisfaction, a capacity for pleasure so refined it becomes exquisite complaint. It is the sigh over a wine’s slightly blurred finish, the tactile rejection of a fabric whose weave feels just perceptibly coarse, the quiet agony of a misaligned picture frame in an otherwise harmonious room—a life spent on the knife-edge of appreciation, where to perceive the finest gradations is to be perpetually, delicately, disappointed.