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Noun: officiousness  u'fi-shus-nus
  1. Aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation
    "His officiousness at social gatherings often made others uncomfortable";
    - intrusiveness, meddlesomeness

See also: intrusive, not intrusive, unintrusive

Type of: aggressiveness