busybodyism
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busybodyism (uncountable)
- The behaviour of a busybody; interfering, meddling. [from 19th c.]
- 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt:
- ‘The suspicious circumstances which invest him, will be found to tally much better with my hypothesis of romantic busy-bodyism, than with the reasoner's suggestion of guilt.’