Fitfulness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being fitful. countable, uncountable
"I had known him jealous, suspicious; I had seen about him certain tendernesses, fitfulnesses—a softness which came like a warm air, and a ruth which passed like early dew, dried in the heat of his irritabilities: this was all I had seen."
- 2 the quality of being spasmodic and irregular wordnet
Example
More examples"I had known him jealous, suspicious; I had seen about him certain tendernesses, fitfulnesses—a softness which came like a warm air, and a ruth which passed like early dew, dried in the heat of his irritabilities: this was all I had seen."
Etymology
From fitful + -ness.
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