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Officiousness

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Noun

1. intrusiveness, meddlesomeness, officiousness

aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Officiousness

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adjective
1. 
unnecessarily or obtrusively ready to offer advice or services
2. 
marked by such readiness
3. diplomacy
informal or unofficial
4. obsolete
attentive or obliging

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Officiousness

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adjective
1.  Obsolete
ready to serve; obliging
2. 
offering unnecessary and unwanted advice or services; meddlesome, esp. in a highhanded or overbearing way
3. 
in diplomacy, unofficial or informal

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Officiousness

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adj.
1. Marked by excessive eagerness in offering unwanted services or advice to others: an officious host; officious attention.
2. Informal; unofficial.
3. Archaic Motivated by the desire to help others.

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