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Definition: Officiousness |
OfficiousnessNoun1. 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. |
Date "officiousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonyms: OfficiousnessSynonyms: intrusiveness (n), meddlesomeness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Officiousness; dabbling, meddling; interference, interposition, intermeddling; tampering with, intrigue. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Officiousness |
| Specialty definitions using "officiousness": Gavel. (references) |
| "Officiousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Officiousness" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "officiousness": over-officiousness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "officiousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bezdi (annoyance, awkwardness, bogey, bother, botheration, displeasure, flea-bite, hassle, peeve, trouble). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | официозност, натрапчивост (pragmatism). (various references) | |
Czech | vlezlost. (various references) | |
French | excès d'empressement. (various references) | |
German | dienstbeflissenheit, beflissenheit (keenness, obsequiousness, zeal), übertriebener diensteifer, übereifer (overeagerness, overenthusiasm, overzeal, overzealousness). (various references) | |
Greek | πολυπραγμοσύνη (inquisitiveness), υπερβολικόσ ζήλοσ, φιλοπραγμοσύνη, οχληρώτησ, οχληρώτητα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | "תערבות בע י י אחרים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szolgálatkészség (complacency, complaisance, compliance, promptitude, promptness, tautness), fontoskodás (buckram, bumbledom, bustling, cockiness, fuss, fussiness, pedantry, pragmatism, priggishness, self-importance). (various references) | |
Italian | ufficiosita', invadenza, ingerenza (interference, meddling), indiscrezione (indiscretion, leakage). (various references) | |
Manx | perkinys (impertinence, interference, loquaciousness, pragmatism, sauciness), perkinaght (interference, loquaciousness, sauciness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | officiousnessay.(various references) | |
Romanian | caracter oficios. (various references) | |
Russian | назойливость (importunity, molestation, obtrusiveness, pragmatism). (various references) | |
Scottish | soilleas (adulation), soileas. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | poluzvaničnost, nametljivost (importunity). (various references) | |
Spanish | oficiosidad, tabarra. (various references) | |
Turkish | işgüzarlık (beadledom, efficiency, meddlesomeness, pragmatism, supererogation). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | втручання у чужі справи, невідчепність, настирливість (importunity, obstinacy, obtrusiveness), надокучливість (pragmatism). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính hay lăng xăng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "officiousness": officiousnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-f-i-i-n-o-o-s-s-s-u" | |
-4 letters: effusions, officious. | |
-5 letters: cessions, confuses, conioses, coniosis, cosiness, cuisines, effusion, fissions, focusses, iffiness, ossifies, scission, suffices. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-f-i-i-n-o-o-s-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: officiousnesses. | |
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