fitfulness

For him these things were no longer beautiful, nor did he see the sunlight, which with a sudden fitfulness had warmed the air.

He however said he would come again in the morning, as there was a fitfulness in my father's pulse which he did not like.

He describes him as of small stature, but of sharp and keen wit, with a mind tinged with melancholy and fitfulness.

The fitfulness of the winds had found its way into my feelings, and the somber tone of the clouds into my meditations.

It takes a picture of the energy exerted, and of the regularity or fitfulness of the manner in which energy is exerted.