busyness

See also: busy-ness

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From busy +‎ -ness; the ⟨y⟩ (-y) is kept to distinguish from business (of which it is a doublet), which is derived from the same two morphemes but by regular spelling rules.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɪ.zɪ.nəs/

Noun

busyness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being busy.
    • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 17, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:
      She moved back to the table, and her busyness expressed her purpose but also perhaps hid some sort of regret at the news.
    • 2016, Benjamin H. Snyder, The Disrupted Workplace […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 144:
      A world without rigid temporal boundaries gave some a rare chance to relax and regroup after many years of busyness.
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