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testiness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun testiness has 1 sense
- testiness(n = noun.feeling) tetchiness, touchiness - feeling easily irritated; Array is a kind of choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance
Derived form adjective testy1
CIDE DICTIONARY
testiness, n.
The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance. [1913 Webster]
"Testiness is a disposition or aptness to be angry."
[1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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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