[f. FIDGETY + -NESS.] The state or quality of being fidgety; nervous restlessness, uneasiness.
1772. Franklin, Wks. (1887), IV. 529. This fidgettiness (to use a vulgar expression for want of a better) is occasioned wholly by an uneasiness in the skin, owing to the retention of the perspirable matter—the bed-clothes having received their quantity, and, being saturated, refusing to take any more.
1860–1. Flo. Nightingale, Nursing, 55. A nurse will be careful to fidgetiness about airing the clean sheets from clean damp, but airing the dirty sheets from noxious damp will never even occur to her.
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., xxviii. (1889), 269. That’s some of uncle’s fidgetiness; but he will be sure to dawdle at the last.
