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Officiousness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being officious. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation wordnet

Etymology

From officious + -ness.

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