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tricksiness

tricksiness noun: the quality or state of being tricksy.

Noun

tricksiness (usually uncountable, plural tricksinesses)

  1. (usually) The quality or state of being tricksy.
    • From the very first there had been an exasperating fascination in the tricksiness with which she had- not met his advances, but- wheeled away from them.1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Book IV, Chapter 28

Forms of tricksiness

pluraltricksinesses

Origin of tricksiness

From tricksy + -ness.

Questions about tricksiness

What does tricksiness mean?
Tricksiness means the quality or state of being tricksy.
What part of speech is tricksiness?
Tricksiness is a noun.
What is the plural of tricksiness?
The plural of tricksiness is tricksinesses.

Words near tricksiness in the dictionary

  1. trickshots
  2. tricksical
  3. tricksier
  4. tricksiest
  5. tricksily
  6. tricksiness
  7. tricksinesses
  8. tricksome
  9. trickster
  10. trickstered
  11. trickstering

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