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FUSSINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fussiness mean?
• FUSSINESS (noun)
The noun FUSSINESS has 2 senses:
1. an irritable petulant feeling
2. unnecessary elaborateness in details
Familiarity information: FUSSINESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An irritable petulant feeling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
choler; crossness; fretfulness; fussiness; irritability; peevishness; petulance
Hypernyms ("fussiness" is a kind of...):
distemper; ill humor; ill humour (an angry and disagreeable mood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fussiness"):
testiness; tetchiness; touchiness (feeling easily irritated)
pet (a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight))
Derivation:
fussy (annoyed and irritable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unnecessary elaborateness in details
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fussiness" is a kind of...):
elaborateness; ornateness (an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated)
Derivation:
fussy (exacting especially about details)
fussy (overcrowded or cluttered with detail)
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