Fussiness

Definition: Fussiness

Fussiness

Noun

1. An irritable petulant feeling.

2. Unnecessary elaborateness in details.

Date "fussiness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Synonyms: Fussiness

Synonyms: choler (n), crossness (n), fretfulness (n), irritability (n), peevishness (n), petulance (n). (additional references)

"Fussiness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fussiness" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	15	90,616

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "fussiness": ultra-fussiness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "fussiness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏هرج (buffoon, fool, pandemonium, playfulness), ‏زخرفة (adornment, blazonry, decor, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, enrichment, garniture, illustration, ornament, ornamentation, ornateness, scenery, scroll), ‏دقة (accuracy, closeness, delicacy, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, fineness, finesse, nicety, preciseness, precision, promptitude, punctuality, refinement, reliability, rigor, rigour, strictness, subtlety, sureness, tenuity, thoroughness, veracity). (various references)

Bulgarian		суетливост, претрупаност (flamboyance, luxuriance, redundance, redundancy), дребнавост (hairsplitting, littleness). (various references)

French		tarabiscotage, tapage (fuss), côté tatillon. (various references)

German		umständlichkeit (awkwardness, circuitousness, elaborateness, intricateness, involvedness, laboriousness, long-windedness, ornateness, ponderousness, tediousness). (various references)

Greek		κενοσπουνδία, σχολαστικότητα (bookishness, punctilio), πολυπραγματοσύνη. (various references)

Hebrew		יזע� ות (fuss), שויץ (fuss, showing off), �"מול�" (ado, bustle, commotion, din, fray, hubbub, hurly burly, hustle, noise, roar, tempest), �"קפ�"ת יתר. (various references)

Hungarian		kicsinyesség (fault-finding, littleness, narrow mindedness, pettiness), aprólékosság (meticulosity, meticulousness, niggling, preciseness). (various references)

Indonesian		kerewelan (choosiness), kecerewetan (fault finding). (various references)

Italian		pignoleria (pedantry), agitazione (abetment, agitation, anxiety, bother, commotion, disturbance, excitement, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, fret, restlessness, state, stir, turmoil, twitter, uneasiness, unrest, upheaval). (various references)

Manx		foostyrys. (various references)

Pig Latin		ussinessfay

Portuguese		rebuliço (fuss, stir, stirabout, to-do, uproar), pieguice (namby-pamby), espalhafato (fuss, splurge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		probirljivost. (various references)

Spanish		puntillosidad, apuntamiento, agitación (agitation, convulsion, discomposure, excitement, ferment, flurry, restiveness, state, stir, twitter, welter), ñoñería (insipidness, shyness, silly remark, stupid thing). (various references)

Turkish		titizlik (daintiness, fastidiousness, meticulousness, niceness, nicety, particularity, peevishness, punctilio, rigor, rigour, scrupulousness, thoroughness), telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, fever, flap, flurry, flutter, fume, fuss, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), aşırı özen. (various references)

Ukrainian		нервовість (nerve, nervosity, nervousness), недоладність (incoherence), метушливість. (various references)

Vietnamese		tính nhặng xị, tính nhắng nhít, tính hay rối rít, tính hay om sòm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fussiness": fussinesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fussiness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fussings, russianness. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "fussiness" (pronounced 'Fuss"i*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-i-n-s-s-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: infuses, sinuses.
	-3 letters: fusses, infuse, issues, susses.
	-4 letters: fines, fuses, issue, neifs, nisus, seifs, sines, sinus, sises.
	-5 letters: fens, fess, feus, fine, fins, funs, fuse, fuss, neif, ness, seif, seis, sine, sins, sues, suns, suss, uses.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-i-n-s-s-s-s-u"
	+2 letters: fussinesses, fustinesses.
	+3 letters: blissfulness, sinfulnesses, stuffinesses.
	+4 letters: diffusenesses, fruitlessness, scruffinesses, unselfishness, wishfulnesses, wistfulnesses.
	+5 letters: blissfulnesses, effusivenesses, factiousnesses, fastidiousness, skillfulnesses, spitefulnesses, tristfulnesses.
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