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Fussiness

Fussiness \Fuss"i*ness\, n. The quality of being fussy.

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fussiness

n. The state of being fussy.

WordNet
fussiness
  1. n. an irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability, crossness, fretfulness, peevishness, petulance, choler]

  2. unnecessary elaborateness in details

Usage examples of "fussiness".

At thirty, he was developing a slight fussiness of manner which reminded Servilia too painfully of that underbred upstart from Arpinum, Marcus Tullius Cicero.

The boxlike room, stripped of all embellishment or parlor fussiness, a room that wished to be timeless or ahistorical, and there, in the middle of it, my deeply historical, timeworn grandmother.

Gould was a retired bank manager, with a permanently soured expression and straight-backed, anal fussiness that rankled Andi before they were even introduced.

He pities the room - its darkness as if even weak windowlight would penetrate her skin and accelerate the destruction of her cells, its hushed funereal fussiness.