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  • noun The quality of being busy without achieving much.

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Examples

  • This distressing character of “busy-ness” in the Old English sense has never been fully exorcised from the word business.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • This distressing character of “busy-ness” in the Old English sense has never been fully exorcised from the word business.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • One thing that busy-ness will teach you, is that no matter what others do to take up your time or discourage you, you have lovely endeavors that will always absorb you.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Often, it is life traumas that take us by surprise and make us realize how much real connection is lost in the busy-ness of our days.

    Wendy Strgar: True Presence Wendy Strgar 2011

  • When resourcefulness and busy-ness is taught early in life, people tend to be happier and more content in life.

    Straight From the Heart 2009

  • When resourcefulness and busy-ness is taught early in life, people tend to be happier and more content in life.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Often, it is life traumas that take us by surprise and make us realize how much real connection is lost in the busy-ness of our days.

    Wendy Strgar: True Presence Wendy Strgar 2011

  • A complex life with complicated activities, relationships and commitments implies a reflexive busy-ness that supplants true thinking and feeling with knee-jerk reactions.

    Arthur Rosenfeld: The Simple Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2012

  • Conversely, the word business comes to us from the Middle Ages, where it was simply busy-ness, meaning engaged in occupation, bustling, full of activity.

    We don’t sell records,we sell dreams: Janis Ian 2009

  • A complex life with complicated activities, relationships and commitments implies a reflexive busy-ness that supplants true thinking and feeling with knee-jerk reactions.

    Arthur Rosenfeld: The Simple Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2012

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  • A webpage that is very busy. Unfortunately, business is already taken.

    September 9, 2009