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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the quality of being spasmodic and irregular;
[syn: fitfulness, jerkiness]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fitful \Fit"ful\, a. [From 7th Fit.]
   Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
   [1913 Webster]

         After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well. --Shak.
   -- Fit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fit"ful*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]

         The victorious trumpet peal
         Dies fitfully away.                      --Macaulay.
   Fithel


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fitfulness
    n 1: the quality of being spasmodic and irregular [syn:
         fitfulness, jerkiness]