officiousness
officiousness noun: the quality of being officious.
Noun
officiousness (countable and uncountable, plural officiousnesses)
- The quality of being officious.
- Mrs Palmer, and her furbelowed daughters-in-law, who will probably carry enough of the scarlet fever about them, to remind you unpleasantly of the officiousness which preserved the lives of three daughters, when two might have been parted with advantageously enough.1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC...
- emulatory officiousness
- Synonyms:
- beadledom
officiousness meaning in Tamil and Urdu
officiousness in Tamil
- கொண்டியாரம்
Synonyms of officiousness
Forms of officiousness
| plural | officiousnesses |
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Origin of officiousness
From officious + -ness.
Questions about officiousness
- What does officiousness mean?
- Officiousness means the quality of being officious.
- What is officiousness in Tamil?
- Officiousness in Tamil is கொண்டியாரம். See Officiousness meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is officiousness?
- Officiousness is a noun.
- What is the plural of officiousness?
- The plural of officiousness is officiousnesses.
Words near officiousness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: officiousness (page history and authors); officiousness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); officiousness (Urdu 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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