businessness en · NOUN
Etymology
From business + -ness.
Meanings
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(nonstandard, uncountable) The quality of being businesslike or characteristic of a business.
The t ratio and factor analysis were used to isolate the common underlying "teacherness" and "businessness" within groups.
1971, Daniel Cohen, “Differentiating Motivations Underlying Vocational Choice”, in The Journal of Educational Research, volume 64, number 5, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 229:So the stank, the swagger about her businessness of her aesthetic, her style. And really, I mean, the type of confidence and nonchalance that she exhibited throughout her life, it's the kind of casualness that only a famous person who is completely assured of their genius and ability to perform and deliver can offer.
2021 February 4, Wesley Morris, Jenna Wortham, “Best of the Archives: Aretha Franklin”, in Still Processing (podcast), spoken by Jenna Wortham, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2023:Everything is built on relationships. To paraphrase Kurt Vonnegut, "It is the humanness that makes a business great, not the 'businessness.'"
2004, Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor: How Passion In Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary, New York, N.Y.; […]: Currency/Doubleday, →ISBN, unnumbered page:"If you always stay at a company, this barbaric businessness overtakes you," he says. "You're always in execution mode. Here [at Stanford] you get to think more strategically about your profession."
2005 March 14, Chris Taylor, quoting David Taylor, “School of Bright Ideas”, in Time, volume 165, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A12:
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(alt-of, misspelling) Misspelling of businesses.
alt of businesses
These traits have been used by psychologists to categorise people, but also by businessness in order to manage a large number of peope effectively.
2016 March 24, Kashmira Gander, “There are five different personality types - which do you have?”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2020: