Home › Words › T › tricksinesstricksinesstricksiness means the quality or state of being tricksy.EtymologyFrom tricksy + -ness.nounThe quality or state of being tricksy.e.g.“From the very first there had been an exasperating fascination in the tricksiness with which she had- not met his advances, but- wheeled away from them.” — 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Book IV, Chapter 28:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).