FITFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fitfulness mean? 

• FITFULNESS (noun)
  The noun FITFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being spasmodic and irregular

  Familiarity information: FITFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FITFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being spasmodic and irregular

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fitfulness; jerkiness

Hypernyms ("fitfulness" is a kind of...):

irregularity; unregularity (not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fitfulness"):

spasticity (the quality of moving or acting in spasms)

Derivation:

fitful (intermittently stopping and starting)

fitful (occurring in spells and often abruptly)

 Context examples 

As to fitfulness, I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)