Meanings
nounfitfulness (countable and uncountable, plural fitfulnesses)
plural fitfulnesses
- countableuncountableThe quality of being fitful.
I had known him jealous, suspicious; I had seen about him certain tendernesses, fitfulnesses—a softness which came like a warm air, and a ruth which passed like early dew, dried in the heat of his irritabilities: this was all I had seen.
1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette
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fitfulness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fitfulness
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