testiness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
testiness
    n 1: feeling easily irritated [syn: {testiness}, {touchiness},
         {tetchiness}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Testiness \Tes"ti*ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.
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         Testiness is a disposition or aptness to be angry.
                                                  --Locke.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "testiness":
      bearishness, bitchiness, cantankerousness, churlishness,
      crabbedness, crankiness, crossness, crustiness, cussedness,
      disagreeability, excitability, fractiousness, huffiness,
      huffishness, irascibility, irritability, meanness, orneriness,
      perversity, snappishness, ugliness, waspishness
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