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busyness

UK/ˈbɪz.i.nɪs/US/ˈbɪz.i.nəs/

busyness noun: the state of being busy.

Noun

busyness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being busy.
    • She moved back to the table, and her busyness expressed her purpose but also perhaps hid some sort of regret at the news.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 17, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
    • A world without rigid temporal boundaries gave some a rare chance to relax and regroup after many years of busyness.2016, Benjamin H. Snyder, The Disrupted Workplace […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 144

busyness meaning in Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada

busyness in Hindi

busyness, occupation, engagement
व्यस्तता vyastatā

busyness in Malayalam

busyness; crowded with activities
തിരക്ക് tirakkŭ

busyness in Kannada

ಕ್ರಿಯಾಶೀಲವಾಗಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಕೆಲಸದಲ್ಲಿ ತೊಡಗಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಕಾರ್ಯಮಗ್ನವಾಗಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಕಾರ್ಯೋದ್ಯುಕ್ತವಾಗಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಬಿಡುವಿಲ್ಲದಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ತುಂಬಿರುವಿಕೆ

Forms of busyness

alternative formbusy-ness
alternative form (obsolete)busynesse

Origin of busyness

From busy + -ness; the ⟨y⟩ (-y) is kept to distinguish from business (of which it is a doublet), which is derived from the same two morphemes but by regular spelling rules.

Questions about busyness

What does busyness mean?
Busyness means the state of being busy.
What is busyness in Hindi?
Busyness in Hindi is व्यस्तता (vyastatā). See Busyness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is busyness?
Busyness is a noun.
How do you pronounce busyness?
Busyness is pronounced /ˈbɪz.i.nɪs/ (UK).

Words near busyness in the dictionary

  1. busybodyness
  2. busying
  3. busying around
  4. busyings
  5. busyish
  6. busyness
  7. busynesse
  8. busynesses
  9. busywork
  10. but
  11. but and ben

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: busyness (page history and authors); व्यस्तता (Hindi) (page history and authors); തിരക്ക് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); busyness (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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