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deediness

noun

Etymology

From deedy + -ness.

  1. inherited from *dʰéh₁tis✻ — “deed, action”
  2. inherited from *dēdiz✻ — “deed”
  3. inherited from *dādi✻
  4. inherited from dēd
  5. inherited from dede
  6. suffixed as deedy — “deed + -y”
  7. suffixed as deediness — “deedy + ness”

Definitions

  1. Full of purposeful activity

    Full of purposeful activity; industriousness.

    • Officer Captain Paul Waggett was preoccupied with the little problems of organization and equipment and correspondence that during the Second World War kept company commanders of the Home Guard in a condition of patriotic deediness […]

  2. Ostentatious busyness

    Ostentatious busyness; A type of showiness that seeks to seem important.

    • Occasionally her pretty arm would be waved with the rest of the eager crowd, but it was a gay gesture of jingling bracelets free from smugness or deediness .
    • I wished I had a clear, cold mind that could cut through cant and deediness to truth.
    • the Corgi shares an inimitable "deediness” with the man who believes that everybody else needs scrutiny and advice

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for deediness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA