Irascibility

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Irascibility \I*ras`ci*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. irascibilit['e].]
     The quality or state of being irascible; irritability of
     temper; irascibleness.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  irascibility
       n : a feeling of resentful anger [syn: {short temper}, {spleen},
            {quick temper}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "irascibility":
     aggressiveness, agitability, bearishness, bellicosity,
     belligerence, bickering, bitchiness, cantankerousness,
     churlishness, combativeness, combustibility, contentiousness,
     contrariness, crabbedness, crankiness, crossness, crustiness,
     cussedness, difficultness, disagreeability, dissension, dissent,
     dissidence, dourness, edginess, emotional instability,
     emotionalism, eruptiveness, excitability, excitableness,
     explosiveness, faction, factiousness, flak, fractiousness,
     frowardness, huffiness, huffishness, infighting, inflammability,
     irritability, latent violence, litigiousness, meanness,
     nervousness, orneriness, partisan spirit, partisanship,
     perturbability, perverseness, perversite, perversity, prickliness,
     pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, sensitivity, shrewishness,
     skittishness, snappishness, startlishness, stuffiness, sulkiness,
     sullenness, tempestuousness, testiness, touchiness, ugliness,
     violence, waspishness, waywardness, wrongheadedness