fubsiness en · NOUN
Etymology
From fubsy + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Quality of being fubsy.
I suppose I'd been expecting incredulity, raised voices, outrage of some sort. But it was worse. A blow-up I could have handled. Instead he didn't say a word, only gazed at me with a sort of grieved fubsiness, haloed by his work lamp, tools arrayed on the walls behind him like Masonic icons.
2013, Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch: