fubsiness

English

Etymology

fubsy +‎ -ness

Noun

fubsiness (uncountable)

1. Quality of being fubsy.
   • 2013, Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch:

     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.