touchiness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

touchiness
    n 1: feeling easily irritated [syn: {testiness}, {touchiness},
         {tetchiness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Touchiness \Touch"i*ness\ (t[u^]ch"[i^]*n[e^]s), n.
   The quality or state of being touchy; peevishness;
   irritability; irascibility.
   [1913 Webster]