b 3 u 1 s 1 y 4 n 1 e 1 s 1 s 1
8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity
originFrom busy + -ness; the ⟨y⟩ (-y) is kept to distinguish from business (of which it is a doublet), which is derived from the same two morphemes but by regular spelling rules.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0