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touchiness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun touchiness has 1 sense
- touchiness(n = noun.feeling) testiness, tetchiness - feeling easily irritated; Array is a kind of choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance
Derived form adjective touchy1
CIDE DICTIONARY
touchiness, n.
The quality or state of being touchy; peevishness; irritability; irascibility. [1913 Webster]
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