Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being flustery.
Still, she could not prevent Mrs Croxon’s flusteriness from spreading like a contagion, so that even Peg’s systems faltered.
2015, Martine Bailey, “Delafosse Hall: October 1792”, in The Penny Heart, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 2072 more examples
“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.”
2008 October, Lisa Plumley, chapter 10, in Home for the Holidays, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 79I’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.
2014, Melissa Keil, chapter 1, in The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl, Atlanta, Ga.: Peachtree Publishers, published 2016, →ISBN, page 7Synonyms: flusteredness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being flustery.
Origin
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