tricksiness
English
editEtymology
editNoun
edittricksiness (usually uncountable, plural tricksinesses)
- The quality or state of being tricksy.
- 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Book IV, Chapter 28:
- 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.
References
edit“tricksiness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.