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Meddlesomeness

Definition: Meddlesomeness

Meddlesomeness

Noun

1. Aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Meddlesomeness

Synonyms: intrusiveness (n), officiousness (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Meddlesomeness

Language Translations for "meddlesomeness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

bemoeisug, bemoeigees. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

indiscretie, bemoeizucht. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

maldiskreteco, enmiksiĝemo. (various references)

   

German

  

Indiskretion (indiscreetness, indiscretion), Fürwitz. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

התערבות (betting, interference, intervention, intrusion, mixture). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kotnyelesség. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eddlesomenessmay

   

Spanish

  

entrometimiento (interference, obtrusion). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

beskäftighet (busyness). (various references)

   

Thai

  

การชอบก้าวก่าย. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

işgüzarlık (beadledom, efficiency, officiousness, pragmatism, supererogation), burnunu sokma eğilimi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Meddlesomeness

Derivations

Words beginning with "meddlesomeness": meddlesomenesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Meddlesomeness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-e-e-l-m-m-n-o-s-s-s"

-4 letters: demonesses, meddlesome.

-5 letters: menseless, oddnesses, oldnesses.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-e-e-l-m-m-n-o-s-s-s"
 

+2 letters: meddlesomenesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Meddlesomeness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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