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Officiousness is the noun: the habit or quality of being too eager to tell people what to do. You can talk about one person’s officiousness, or the officiousness of a whole office — the culture of extra rules and unasked advice. It names the pattern, not one moment. Like officious, it always shows dislike. Students rarely need it in speech; it turns up in writing when someone wants a precise, slightly cold name for that helpfulness.
好管閒事、愛指揮人(指這種態度或作風)
組成officious + -ness, the ending that turns an adjective into a noun for the quality.
同家族的字
- officiousthe adjective this comes from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
officiousnessnoun
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The quality of being officious.
- 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
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。