Crossword clues for fitfulness
fitfulness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fitful \Fit"ful\, a. [From 7th Fit.] Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well.
--Shak.
-- Fit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fit"ful*ness, n.
The victorious trumpet peal
Dies fitfully away.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being fitful.
WordNet
n. the quality of being spasmodic and irregular [syn: jerkiness]
Usage examples of "fitfulness".
Night falls with its fitfulness, its starts and stops, the iron screams of the train.
The same fidgety fitfulness is afflicting them both, though neither has admitted it to the other yet.
As to fitfulness, I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round.
The rains, the winds and the waves, the complexity and the fitfulness of nature, are always before him.
They both smelled each other, but whenever Baba Yaga thought of seeking him out, or Bear stirred in his somnolence, Mikola filled the air between them with so much of the forgetful haze of summer that they'd become distracted and think of something else, with only a feeling of fitfulness and ennui to remind them of their forgotten desire.