Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being frantic; distraction; frenzy.

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  • noun The state or quality of being frantic

Etymologies

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frantic +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • One thing I forgot to mention is that Shawn has been having migraines on and off for several days again (knock on wood, she seems to be recovering), but so a lot of my franticness has been aggrivated by the fact that my partner has been pretty much down for the count.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2010

  • This was the only movie that dealt with the subject of millennium, and here we're going from one millennium to the next, and it's the only movie out there, and it's you know, and I thought it was great because there is such a kind of franticness around the world among so many people about the subject on what is going to happen on ...

    CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2003 2003

  • "The Oxford English Dictionary, the Pedant's Bible, gives" franticness "as" The state or condition of being frantic ", so we don't have to see 'frenzy' as the noun and 'frantic' as the adjective, despite their common etymology, especially because we also have 'frenzical'.

    Bolton Wanderers v Manchester United - as it happened John Ashdown 2010

  • She had just stepped under the water when she heard Walter begin to bark with a franticness that could only mean one thing.

    Last Night at Chateau Marmont Lauren Weisberger 2010

  • Once we ended up with a reasonable goal and got people centered around it, instead of this franticness about doing something impossible tomorrow, it ended up working out.

    Autodesk's Bass On Speaking Up To Carol Bartz 2010

  • We gave him (her?) the traditional, "Gucci, gucci, you were a good fish" toilet farewell, and his/her death added to my general franticness about finding the Mall.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008

  • Once we ended up with a reasonable goal and got people centered around it, instead of this franticness about doing something impossible tomorrow, it ended up working out.

    Autodesk's Bass On Speaking Up To Carol Bartz 2010

  • Instead, with a kind of franticness his thoughts would skip from one to another.

    Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

  • He slows the franticness of his touches then stills them completely at her lack of response.

    Post Pomp (11/22) amberfocus 2008

  • The story line is fast-paced keeping the sense of desperate franticness that the heroes face while their people are being butchered.

    Tuck-Stephen Lawhead « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

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