Synonyms for fitfulness
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : fit-fuhl |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪt fəl |
Top 10 synonyms for fitfulness
- activity
- ailment
- alternation
- ants
- antsiness
- bee
- bustle
- caper
- capriciousness
- changeability
- changeableness
- contrariety
- crotchet
- disequilibrium
- disquiet
- disquietude
- disturbance
- edginess
- excitability
- fad
- fancy
- fickleness
- fitfulness
- flightiness
- fluidity
- fool notion
- frailty
- freak
- fretfulness
- gag
- hesitation
- humor
- hurry
- immaturity
- impermanence
- impulse
- inconsistency
- inconstancy
- inquietude
- insecureness
- irregularity
- irresolution
- jerk
- jumpiness
- kink
- mood
- movement
- mutability
- notion
- oscillation
- peculiarity
- perversity
- pliancy
- precariousness
- put on
- quirk
- restiveness
- restlessness
- rib
- ricketiness
- shakiness
- temper
- thought
- transience
- turbulence
- turmoil
- unease
- uneasiness
- unfixedness
- unpredictability
- unreliability
- unrest
- unsettledness
- unstableness
- unsteadiness
- unsureness
- vacillation
- vagary
- variability
- vein
- volatility
- vulnerability
- wavering
- weakness
- whim
- whimsy
- wobbliness
- worriedness
Définition of fitfulness
Origin :- used once by Shakespeare ("Macbeth," 1605) in sense of "characterized by fits," then revived by Scott (1810) with a sense of "shifting, changing." From fit (n.2) + -ful. Related: Fitfully; fitfulness.
- As in instability : noun imbalance, inconstancy
- As in restlessness : noun constant motion; discontent
- As in caprice : noun sudden change of behavior
- As in inquietude : noun restlessness
- As in insecureness : noun instability
- As in precariousness : noun instability
- As in restiveness : noun restlessness
- As in ricketiness : noun unstableness
- As in shakiness : noun instability
- As in unease : noun restlessness
- As in unstableness : noun unsteadiness
- As in unsteadiness : noun unstableness
- As in unsureness : noun instability
- Ministerial appointments were staggering in their fitfulness, and appeared to the people as a kind of absurdity.
- Extract from : « The Russian Turmoil » by Anton Ivanovich Denikin
- His impenetrable reserve chills the warmth of enthusiasm, while the fitfulness of his morals produces constant inquietude.
- Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz
- But now what fitfulness of temper this, to carry off by violence, to rob my soul of one, the choicest jewel of his tribe.
- Extract from : « Sacred Books of the East » by Various
- The rains, the winds and the waves, the complexity and the fitfulness of nature, are always before him.
- Extract from : « Records of a Family of Engineers » by Robert Louis Stevenson
- He however said he would come again in the morning, as there was a fitfulness in my father's pulse which he did not like.
- Extract from : « Cynthia Wakeham's Money » by Anna Katharine Green
- He describes him as of small stature, but of sharp and keen wit, with a mind tinged with melancholy and fitfulness.
- Extract from : « The Story of an Ancient Parish » by H. R. Coulthard
- There was sometimes a bit of waywardness about Leslie Goldthwaite; there was a fitfulness of frankness and reserve.
- Extract from : « A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. » by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
- Here we have clear recognition of the two great characters of sex impulse, its violence and its fitfulness.
- Extract from : « The Social Emergency » by Various
- The fitfulness of the winds had found its way into my feelings, and the somber tone of the clouds into my meditations.
- Extract from : « Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. » by John Uri Lloyd
- It takes a picture of the energy exerted, and of the regularity or fitfulness of the manner in which energy is exerted.
- Extract from : « Civics and Health » by William H. Allen
Antonyms for fitfulness
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