[f. FUSSY a. + -NESS.] The quality or habit of being fussy; restless or ostentatious activity about trifles.
1851. Helps, Comp. Solit., xi. (1874), 192. Then we might have that tolerance of other people’s pursuits, that absence of disputatiousness, and that freedom from small fussiness, which would render a companion a certain gain.
1876. Green, Stray Stud., 316. Her religious exhortations are backed by scoldings and fussiness.
1884. Manch. Exam., 20 May, 5/2. The fussiness of Thiers, who would have a finger in every pie that was being made.
