0 the quality of being difficult to please or showing an unnecessary amount of care or worry about something that is not important:
1 the quality of having too much decoration and too many small details:
I dislike the fussiness of the collar, with its decorative bows.
2 the quality in a baby of crying a lot and being difficult to calm:
Keep an eye out for symptoms such as fussiness, unusual sleepiness, or difficulty feeding.
In her role as Juliet's nurse she swings wildly from comic impatience to maternal fussiness.
He is a Virgo, whose traits include fussiness, perfectionism and a tendency to worry.
He complained about their officiousness, their fussiness and their inability to let well alone.
It's incredible how so much lush detail can be included without a trace of fussiness.
The songs are sung with requisite nuance yet never descend into fussiness.
One of their biggest challenges has been Sylvia's unexpected fussiness, refusal to nap during the day and need to be held all the time.
When you introduce a new food watch for such reactions as rashes, diarrhea, vomiting, and fussiness.
