meddlesomenessn.
/ˈmɛdls(ə)mnəs/, U.S. /ˈmɛd(ə)lsəmnəs/ The condition or quality of being meddlesome.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] > interference or meddling > quality
meddlesomenessa1677
interferingness1874
a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) ix. 86 Meddlesomeness is commonly blameable.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 325 A meddlesomeness, and interference, and rising up of a part against the whole of the soul.
1912 Truth (Sydney) 18 Aug. 1/1 That spirit of meddlesomeness and prying prudery that Australians call Wowserism.
1992 Daily Tel. 5 Mar. 21/4 Even if one allows, then, for errors by the British Government,..the commission is not quite exonerated from the basic charge of meddlesomeness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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