fidgettiness

English

Etymology

From fidgetty +‎ -ness.

Noun

fidgettiness (uncountable)

1. Archaic spelling of fidgetiness.
   • 1793, Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life, Written by Himself, Together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator, Dublin: […] P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, and W. Jones, page 185:

     This fidgettineſs, to uſe a vulgar expreſſion for want of a better, is occaſioned wholly by an uneaſineſs in the ſkin, owing to the retenſion of the perſpirable matter—the bed-clothes having received their quantity, and, being ſaturated, refuſing to take any more.

   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 197:

     Mr. Woodhouse’s peculiarities and fidgettiness were sometimes provoking him to a rational remonstrance or sharp retort equally ill bestowed.

   • 1869, Tho[ma]s T[oke] Lynch, A Group of Six Sermons, London: Elliot Stock, […], page 55:

     Was there anything of fidgettiness in St. Paul’s manner as he sat waiting?