deediness

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deediness

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From deedy + -ness.

noun

uncountable Full of purposeful activity; industriousness. These men, to the number of eighteen or twenty, were not only entirely ignorant of the word "geology," but testified their rustic wonderment that I should spend my time in looking on so eagerly as they drove their wedges into the stony layers, and should watch with such “deediness," as they called i
uncountable 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 .

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@misc{deediness_2026,
  title = {deediness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/deediness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}