officiousness
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Of·fi·cious a.
1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. [R.]
If there were any lie in the case, it could be no more than an officious and venial one. --Note on Gen. xxvii. (Douay version).
2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. [Archaic]
Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
Officious. --Milton.
They were tolerably well bred, very officious, humane, and hospitable. --Burke.
3. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
You are too officious
In her behalf that scorns your services. --Shak.
Syn: -- Impertinent; meddling. See Impertinent.
-- Of*fi*cious*ly, adv. -- Of*fi*cious*ness, n.
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officiousness
n : aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing
yourself or your ideas without invitation [syn: intrusiveness,
meddlesomeness]