fitful
adjective
coming, appearing, acting, etc., in fits or by spells; recurring irregularly.
fitfulness
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a word derived from
fitful.
Example Sentences
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Cunningham’s big project has always revolved around examining time’s fitfulness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
Some of fusion’s fitfulness is innate to the design of doughnut-shaped tokamak reactors.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 22, 2022
I expected maybe an hour’s worth of sleep and a lot of fitfulness.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2014
"Flirting" also echoes the "twirling" of the leaf, suggesting a similar playfulness and fitfulness.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2012
The life of the forest animal seems reproduced in the fierceness, the fitfulness, the abandon, of each strange series of abrupt gesticulations.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
