A quality or attitude indicative of the desire to document one's lack of culpability for foreseeable negative outcomes.
Derived from the acronym CYA, which stands for "Cover Your Ass" -- common parlance in the American workplace, used when warning co-workers to protect themselves with adequate, blame-deflecting documentation.
Joe is thankful to the Legal department for refining his skills at inserting stealth qualifiers (such as: "can," "may" and "helps to ... ") to enhance the CYA-ishness of his writtenmaterials.
Iness is the name of a wonderful person who is so kind and caring to everyone they meet. They are gorgeous, funny, super smart, really creative, and cool. They always try their best and they deserve all that is good in life. Anyone would be lucky to have an Iness in their life.