flusteriness

English

Etymology

From flustery +‎ -ness.

Noun

flusteriness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being flustery.
    Synonym: flusteredness
    • 2008 October, Lisa Plumley, chapter 10, in Home for the Holidays, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 79:
      “Um. I’m getting a jump on tomorrow,” she explained. She hoped her excuse sounded wittier to him—the man who enjoyed, as he’d probably put it, flusteriness. “Now I’m a whole day ahead.”
    • 2014, Melissa Keil, chapter 1, in The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl, Atlanta, Ga.: Peachtree Publishers, published 2016, →ISBN, page 7:
      I’m making Mr. and Mrs. Palmer their Sunday cappuccinos, and Grady’s flusteriness has almost made me upend coffee all over my new swing dress.
    • 2015, Martine Bailey, “Delafosse Hall: October 1792”, in The Penny Heart, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 207:
      Still, she could not prevent Mrs Croxon’s flusteriness from spreading like a contagion, so that even Peg’s systems faltered.
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