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fretfulness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fretfulness has 1 sense
- fretfulness(n = noun.feeling) choler, crossness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance - an irritable petulant feeling; Array is a kind of distemper, ill humor, ill humour
has particulars: testiness, tetchiness, touchiness, pet
Derived form adjective fretful2
THESAURUS
fretfulness
anxiety, breathless impatience, chafing, disquietude, eagerness, excitement, fretting, haste, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, lather, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, petulancy, querulousness, resentfulness, restiveness, restlessness, shrewishness, stew, sweat, tense readiness, uneasiness, unpatientness, unquietness, vixenishness
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