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fussiness

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fuss·y  (fs)
adj. fuss·i·er, fuss·i·est
1. Easily upset; given to bouts of ill temper: a fussy baby.
2. Paying great or excessive attention to personal tastes and appearance; fastidious: He was always fussy about clothes.
3. Calling for or requiring great attention to sometimes trivial details: a fussy actuarial problem.
4. Full of superfluous details: "It can indeed be fussy, filling with ornament what should be empty space" (H.D.F. Kitto).

fussi·ly adv.
fussi·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.fussinessfussiness - an irritable petulant feeling        
ill humor, ill humour, distemper - an angry and disagreeable mood
testiness, tetchiness, touchiness - feeling easily irritated
pet - a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)
2.fussiness - unnecessary elaborateness in details
elaborateness, ornateness - an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated
Translations
fussiness [ˈfʌsɪnɪs] N
1. (= exacting nature)
1.1. (pej) his fussiness about food is driving me madsus mañías para la comida me están volviendo loco
1.2. (= scrupulousness) → meticulosidad f, escrupulosidad f
fussiness about details is an asset in this jobla meticulosidad or escrupulosidad en los detalles es un punto a favor para este puesto
2. (= elaborateness) [of design, clothes] → lo recargado
fussiness
n
(= fastidiousness)peinliche Genauigkeit; (= pettiness)Kleinlichkeit f; (= preciseness)Genauigkeit f; (= choosiness)wählerische Art; because of his incredible fussiness about what he eatsweil er so unglaublich wählerisch ist, was das Essen angeht
(pej: = overelaboration, of design, style) → überladene Art; (of furnishings, dress)Verspieltheit f
fussiness [ˈfʌsɪnɪs] nschifiltosità
fussiness [ˈfʌsɪnɪs] nschifiltosità


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Epanchin's invariable fussiness and anxiety, there could not be the slightest hitch in the simplest matters of everyday life, but she immediately foresaw the most dreadful and alarming consequences, and suffered accordingly.
I believe my brother could see me burned like a witch for such a thing, But then, the very thought of such fanatical cruelty heightened my old hatred of his dingy old antiquarian fussiness and my longing for the youth and liberty that called to me from the sea.
 
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