Definitions
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- noun The quality of being
controlling .
Etymologies
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controlling + -ness
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Examples
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Is this the way his controlling -- his controllingness was in the lab with all these Ph.D. candidates, with the people that came across him?
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It wasn't so much the ridiculous controllingness that made me smile (the labels had no header strip, so they were symmetrical, and it would make absolutely no difference if you used the sheet one way up rather than the other); it was the quaint old lexical item typewriter.
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