Word.ws English Dictionary

businesslikeness

businesslikeness noun: the state or condition of being businesslike.

Noun

businesslikeness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being businesslike.
    • I do myself think that this is so; that disputes about standards of businesslikeness are verbal in the sense that they turn on what we choose to mean by 'businesslike', […]1969, Ronald F. Atkinson, Conduct: an Introduction to Moral Philosophy (page 70)

Origin of businesslikeness

From businesslike + -ness.

Questions about businesslikeness

What does businesslikeness mean?
Businesslikeness means the state or condition of being businesslike.
What part of speech is businesslikeness?
Businesslikeness is a noun.

Words near businesslikeness in the dictionary

  1. businessfolks
  2. businessless
  3. businesslessness
  4. businesslike
  5. businesslikely
  6. businesslikeness
  7. businessman
  8. businessman's LSD
  9. businessman's lunch
  10. businessman's risk
  11. businessman's risks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: businesslikeness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “businesslikeness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/businesslikeness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.