fussiness
- noun
- /ˈfəsēnəs/
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excesiva atención a los detalles
- Keenness of attention, discipline of method, fussiness over details—these are dull attributes to list, but every good fisherman has them, so there you are.
There wouldn't be all of the fussiness of E scooters, meal kits, or movie tickets to deal with.
- There wouldn't be all of the fussiness of E scooters, meal kits, or movie tickets to deal with.
- And so there's lots of areas where where the fussiness is is perfectly acceptable and good and better than humans, cheaper than humans.
Examples
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There wouldn't be all of the fussiness of E scooters, meal kits, or movie tickets to deal with.
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Tucked into a sheaf of grimy bills, in a hand precise to the point of fussiness, was the accounting in each denomination and the day's total: seven hundred dollars and thirty-six cents.
Fiction book (1994) -
Not much fussiness or craziness or weird tail light design back here.
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And so there's lots of areas where where the fussiness is is perfectly acceptable and good and better than humans, cheaper than humans.
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And so there's lots of areas where where the fussiness is is perfectly acceptable and good and better than humans, cheaper than humans.
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There's a fastidiousness about the way he's doing it, almost a fussiness.
Fiction book (1997) -
The fussiness of the wedding decorations made it look overly extravagant.
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His fussiness about the details often slowed down the project.
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The chef's fussiness in presentation showed his dedication to culinary art.
Synonyms
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8.4
Paying too much attention to small rules and details to show you know a lot
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4.8
Using more language than needed in writing or speech
Being too focused on small rules and details in a way that annoys people
Careful, detailed work that has many small parts or decorations
A lot of extra decoration that looks showy
Antonyms
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fussiness comes from the short word fuss, which means 'to make a big deal about small things', plus -y and -ness to make a noun. So, fussiness is the quality of being needlessly elaborate or full of small, showy details.