Citations:hectivity

Noun: "a state of constant, frenzied, and typically stressful activity"

 * 1924 — The Pullman News, Volumes 3-4:
 * That the annual "hectivity" of the Christimas shopping looms menacingly in the offing, is well evidenced by familiar signs of restlessness and worried expressions on the countenances of many.
 * 1955 — Walter Moreau, "The Church Is The Foundation Of World Peace", The News-Dispatch, 19 August 1955:
 * At a recent Church conference I heard a new word coined to describe the seemingly endless restlessness which characterizes most of our lives. That word is "hectivity" and it is a combination of "hectic" and "activity."
 * 1972 — Harlan Ellison, Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, Doubleday & Company Inc. (1972):
 * "Mine is a life of occasional hectivity, much leisure, frequent confusion, and many pleasures.
 * 1976 — Ricardo Sánchez, Hechizospells, Chicano Studies Center Publications (1976), page 50:
 * Nothing can save us from ourselves — and ourselves is but a journey to non-being, and so we strive with all the hectivity that we can muster to somehow believe in glorifying ourselves in order to achieve some immortality,
 * 1979 — Doris Lessing, Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta, Random House (1979), ISBN 9780307777669, unnumbered page:
 * Their general mentation seems to be deteriorating rapidly. They suffer from hectivity, acceleration, arrhythmictivity.
 * 1981 — Jeanne Avery, "Star Tracking", Gettysburg Times, 14 February 1981:
 * Some "hectivity" with career, personal life may be essential to blast you out of a rut.
 * 1988 — James Ehmann, "Ehmann's people", The Post-Standard, 8 January 1988:
 * Today is National Joygerm Day, which, as founder Joygerm Joan White of Syracuse noted, "falls conveniently at a time when we all need a little pick-me-up following the hectivity of the holidays."
 * 1989 — Ron McClung, "Positive perspective", The Argus-Press, 25 November 1989:
 * It throws us into a whirl of more "hectivity" than anyone should be expected to tolerate!
 * 1995 — Maura Casey, "Amid the 'hectivity,' a reflection", The Day, 5 November 1995:
 * We're lucky, I suppose, if these moments make up for some of the "hectivity" of our lives working to earn a paycheck, pay the bills, support our families.
 * 2001 — Justine Tally, The Story of Jazz: Toni Morrison's Dialogic Imagination, Lit (2001), ISBN 9783825853648:
 * My thanks once again to Maria Diedrich for her encouragement, suggestions, corrections and general support in evaluating the original manuscript, and to Patrick Miller for taking the time in the middle of overwhelming "hectivity" to read and critique the revisions.
 * 2002 — John Ridley, A Conversation with the Mann, Warner Books (2002), ISBN 9780446562959, unnumbered page:
 * I headed from my apartment over to a corner diner for a late break fast, and I don't recall the normal crush of people packing the New York streets or the usual hectivity.
 * 2005 — Mahavir Singh, Building a New Asia, Shipra Publications (2005), ISBN 9788175412415:
 * While such political mega-events generate only electoral hectivity, the Indian administrators have to regularly handle millions of people in several mega-religious activities, besides handling multitude of mini-religious events like processions and mass worship which impede daily life almost every month (if not every week) in every small town and with even large cities experiencing severe inconveniences on this account regularly, placing a huge stress upon the administrators time, energy, funds and, above all, mental tranquility.
 * 2006 — Charles Stuckey, "Valley voice", The Desert Sun, 28 January 2006:
 * That's why they're here - to "get away" from the hurly-burly-hectivity of the LA grind and gridlock.
 * 2007 — Jay Nordlinger, "Cohen of Memphis, etc.", National Review, 6 September 2007:
 * "My three daughters cause too much hectivity in our house."
 * 2010 — Micki Bare, "Computer maintenance 101: crash laptop annually", Arkansas News, 22 May 2010:
 * With hectivity levels peaking this time of year as school winds down, baseball ramps up and we continue to settle into our new home, the chore of backing up data slid to the back burner.

Noun: "a frenetic or stressful activity"

 * 1913 — The Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Volume 5:
 * Led by our class baby, Elizabeth Hamburger, we marched under the arch, two by two, and it was also the center of our "hectivities"
 * 1925 — Dearborn Independent, Volume 25, Issue 33:
 * In other words, America has gone into recreation, vacations and outdoor sports with the same furious enthusiasm it put into making money, building cities, dancing, cross-word puzzles and making automobiles. And in following its newest and probably most constructive hectivity it is using the power which nature put aside for this or some other purpose countless ages ago — the power of gasoline.
 * 1962 — "A Day on a Luxury Liner, Cruising on a Sunlit Sea", Boston Globe, 11 March 1962:
 * Out here on the Pacific, there's no rush, no tension, none of the "hectivities" of everyday life ashore.
 * 2008 — Mare Petras, "In training for the holidays", Herald-Tribune, 4 November 2008:
 * Some want to be able to fit into their favorite pair of jeans after the holidays, others want more energy to keep up with the grandchildren, while others are looking for stress relief during the usual holiday "hectivities."