13 Letter Words for Officiousness
officiousness
9 Letter Words for Officiousness
cosession, cousiness, effossion, effusions, officious, sensifics
8 Letter Words for Officiousness
cessions, confuses, conioses, coniosis, cuisines, effusion, fissions, iffiness, inscious, oofiness, ossifies, scission, sensific, soffione, soffioni, suffices
7 Letter Words for Officiousness
cesious, cession, coffins, coiffes, conessi, confess, confuse, conuses, coosens, coosins, cosines, cossies, cousins, cuffins, cuisine, cuissen, cuisses, eosinic, essoins, finises, fission, focuses, foisons, fucoses, fusions, iciness, incises, incuses, infuses, nicoise, nisuses, offices, officio, oncoses, oncosis, oniscus, oscines, osseins, osseous, ossific, scouses, senoufo, session, sinuose, sinuses, sissone, suffice, unifies
6 Letter Words for Officiousness
census, cessio, cissus, coffin, coiffe, coisns, coosen, coosin, cosine, cosins, cosses, cossie, cousin, cuffin, cuinfo, cuisse, cusses, cussos, effuso, enosis, eosins, essoin, ficins, ficoes, fiscus, foison, fosses, founce, fucose, fuscin, fusion, fusses, icones, incise, incuse, incuss, infeof, infuse, inosic, ionics, iscose, isseis, issues, nessus, nisses, noesis, noises, nooses, nosies, nouses, office, onuses, oonses, oscine, ossein, ounces, scions, scious, scoffs, scones, scouse, scuffs, scuses, scusin, sencio, sensus, senufo, sissoo, sniffs, snoose, snuffs, socies, socius, sonces, sonics, soniou, sonses, sonsie, souces, souses, suisse, uncoif, unesco, unicef, unific
5 Letter Words for Officiousness
cines, cions, coeff, coeno, coffs, coifs, coins, cones, confs, conus, coofs, coons, cosen, coses, cosie, cosin, cosse, cuffo, cuffs, cuifs, cunei, cusie, cusso, ensis, eosin, euois, fenis, fices, ficin, ficos, ficus, fiefs, fifes, fifie, fines, finis, finos, fiscs, focus, foins, foons, fosie, fosse, funic, funis, fuses, iceni, icons, incus, infos, insue, ionic, issei, issue, issus, neifs, niefs, nifes, niffs, nific, nisei, nisse, nisus, noise, noose, noses, nuffs, offic, oisin, onces, oncus, ooses, oscin, osone, ounce, scion, scoff, scone, scoon, scuff, scuse, secno, secos, secus, seifs, senso, sensu, sices, siens, since, sines, sinus, sises, sison, sissu, snies, sniff, snuff, socii, sonce, sones, sonic, sonse, sosie, souce, souse, suine, sunis, suses, susso, unces, uncos, unice, usine, usnic
4 Letter Words for Officiousness
cens, cess, cine, cion, coef, coes, coff, coif, coin, cone, conf, coni, cons, coof, coon, coos, cose, coss, coue, cues, cuff, cuif, cuon, cuss, econ, ecus, effs, enuf, eons, euoi, feif, feis, feni, fens, fess, feus, fice, fico, fief, fies, fife, fifo, fine, fini, fino, fins, fisc, fise, foen, foes, foin, fone, fono, fons, foon, foos, foss, foun, fous, fuci, funs, fusc, fuse, fuss, ices, icon, info, iocs, ions, isis, isos, nefs, neif, ness, nice, nief, nies, nife, niff, nisi, noes, nose, nous, nsec, nuff, oeci, offs, once, ones, onus, oofs, oons, oose, oses, osse, scsi, scun, seco, secs, seif, seis, sens, sess, sice, sics, sien, sife, sine, sins, sion, sise, sisi, siss, soce, soco, socs, sone, sons, soon, soso, soss, sous, suci, sues, suff, sufi, sune, suni, suns, susi, suss, ufos, unce, unci, unco, uncs, unie, unio, unis, uses
3 Letter Words for Officiousness
cen, ceo, cfi, cfs, cie, cif, cis, cns, con, coo, cos, csi, cue, cun, eco, ecu, eff, efs, enc, ens, eof, eon, eos, esc, ess, esu, fcs, fec, fei, fen, fes, feu, fie, fin, foe, fon, foo, fou, fun, ice, ifc, ife, iff, ifs, inc, inf, ins, iof, ion, ios, iou, ise, isn, iso, nco, nef, nei, neo, nie, nis, noo, nos, nus, oes, off, ofo, oie, oii, ois, one, oni, ono, ons, oof, oon, oos, ose, osi, ouf, oui, ous, scf, sci, sec, sei, sen, sic, sie, sif, sin, sis, soc, son, sou, sse, ssu, sue, suf, sui, sun, sus, ufo, ufs, unc, uni, uns, use
Definitions for Officiousness
[1] objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
[2] marked by or proceeding from such forwardness: officious interference.
[3] Obsolete . ready to serve; obliging.
[4] unnecessarily or obtrusively ready to offer advice or services
[5] marked by such readiness
[6] diplomacy informal or unofficial
[7] obsolete attentive or obliging
Words related to Officiousness
officiousdisrespect, interest, concern, nerve, misbehavior, vulgarity, sharpness, asperity, irritability, acrimony, discourtesy, grossness, impudence, coarseness, boldness, impertinence, incivility, brass, effrontery, harshness
Words nearby Officiousness
officiousofficially, officiant, officiary, officiate, officinal, officious, officious will, offing, offish, offlap, offline
Origin of Officiousness
1555–65; < Latin officiōsus obliging, dutiful, equivalent to offici(um ) office + -ōsus -ous
Words that may be confused with Officiousness
WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, officiousofficial, officious, officiate, officious
Other words from Officiousness
of·fi·cious·ly , adverb
of·fi·cious·ness , noun
o·ver·of·fi·cious , adjective
o·ver·of·fi·cious·ly , adverb
o·ver·of·fi·cious·ness , noun
su·per·of·fi·cious , adjective
su·per·of·fi·cious·ly , adverb
su·per·of·fi·cious·ness , noun
un·of·fi·cious , adjective
un·of·fi·cious·ly , adverb
un·of·fi·cious·ness , noun
Word origin for Officiousness
C16: from Latin officiōsus kindly, from officium service; see office
Synonyms for Officiousness
disrespect, acrimony, asperity, audacity, barbarity, bluntness, boldness, boorishness, brass, cheek, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, disdain, effrontery, grossness, harshness, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, intrusiveness, irritability, misbehavior, nerve, shamelessness, sharpness, tactlessness, ungraciousness, unkindness, vulgarity, bad manners, unmannerliness
