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Busyness

//ˈbɪz.ɪ.nɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being busy. uncountable

    "She moved back to the table, and her busyness expressed her purpose but also perhaps hid some sort of regret at the news."

  2. 2
    the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity wordnet

Etymology

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.

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