Testiness

3 definitions found

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

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

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

  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