businesslikeness

== English == === Etymology === From businesslike +‎ -ness. === Noun === businesslikeness (uncountable) The state or condition of being businesslike. 1969, Ronald F. Atkinson, Conduct: an Introduction to Moral Philosophy (page 70) I do myself think that this is so; that disputes about standards of businesslikeness are verbal in the sense that they turn on what we choose to mean by 'businesslike', […]