fussiness
noun
fussiness is a noun meaning “The state of being fussy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-S-S-I-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fussiness is fussinesses.
What does fussiness mean?
noun
- 1
The state of being fussy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fussiness
- fussinesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fussiness?
Fussiness appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fussiness come from?
From fussy + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).