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Meaning of Officiousness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The quality of being officious.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Mrs Palmer, and her furbelowed daughters-in-law, who will probably carry enough of the scarlet fever about them, to remind you unpleasantly of the officiousness which preserved the lives of three daughters, when two might have been parted with advantageously enough.”
“emulatory officiousness”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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