officiousness

What does officiousness mean?

officiousness means "aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation".

How many syllables are in officiousness?

officiousness has 5 syllables and divides as of-fi-ci-ou-sness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for officiousness?

Close synonyms include intrusiveness, meddlesomeness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is officiousness a common word?

officiousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for officiousness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.