Usually means: Excessive concern or anxious behavior.
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  1. fussing: Merriam-Webster
  2. fussing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fussing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fussing, fussing: Wordnik
  5. fussing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fussing: Wiktionary
  7. Fussing, fussing: Dictionary.com
  8. fussing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Fussing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Fussing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. fussing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. fussing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fussing)

▸ noun:  Excessive care; act of one who fusses.

Similar:
niggle, bickering, pother, ado, tizzy, bother, tiff, hassle, squabble, trouble, more...

Opposite:
calmness, serenity, tranquility, peace

Types:
nagging, pestering, harassing, badgering, prodding, needling, goading, hectoring, more...

Phrases:
foolish fussing, fussing over something in hand, mothering fussing, fussing over, fussing and fretting, more...

Adjectives:
much, little, constant, busy, paroxysmal, such, endless, good, quit, usual, useless



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Similar:
niggle, bickering, pother, ado, tizzy, bother, tiff, hassle, squabble, trouble, more...

Opposite:
calmness, serenity, tranquility, peace

Types:
nagging, pestering, harassing, badgering, prodding, needling, goading, hectoring, more...

Phrases:
foolish fussing, fussing over something in hand, mothering fussing, fussing over, fussing and fretting, more...

Adjectives:
much, little, constant, busy, paroxysmal, such, endless, good, quit, usual, useless



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