tricksiness

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noun

The quality or state of being tricksy.

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Meanings

nountricksiness (usually uncountable, plural tricksinesses)

plural tricksinesses

  1. uncountableusuallyThe quality or state of being tricksy.

    From the very first there had been an exasperating fascination in the tricksiness with which she had- not met his advances, but- wheeled away from them.

    1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Book IV, Chapter 28

Origin

From tricksy + -ness.

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APA

tricksiness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tricksiness

MLA

“tricksiness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tricksiness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tricksiness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tricksiness.

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