fitfulness
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fitfulness (countable and uncountable, plural fitfulnesses)
- The quality of being fitful.
- 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
- I had known him jealous, suspicious; I had seen about him certain tendernesses, fitfulnesses—a softness which came like a warm air, and a ruth which passed like early dew, dried in the heat of his irritabilities: this was all I had seen.