tricksiness

English

Etymology

tricksy +‎ -ness

Noun

tricksiness (usually uncountable, plural tricksinesses)

1. The quality or state of being tricksy.
   • 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Book IV, Chapter 28:

     From the very first there had been an exasperating fascination in the tricksiness with which she had- not met his advances, but- wheeled away from them.

References

“tricksiness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.