fitfulness

English

Etymology

From fitful +‎ -ness.

Noun

fitfulness (countable and uncountable, plural fitfulnesses)

1. The quality of being fitful.
   • 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:

     I had known him jealous, suspicious; I had seen about him certain tendernesses, fitfulnesses—a softness which came like a warm air, and a ruth which passed like early dew, dried in the heat of his irritabilities: this was all I had seen.

Anagrams

• snuffliest