testiness

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun testiness has 1 sense

testiness(n = noun.feeling) tetchiness, touchiness - feeling easily irritated;

is a kind of choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance

Derived form adjective testy₁

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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]

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THESAURUS

testiness

bearishness, bitchiness, cantankerousness, churlishness, crabbedness, crankiness, crossness, crustiness, cussedness, disagreeability, excitability, fractiousness, huffiness, huffishness, irascibility, irritability, meanness, orneriness, perversity, snappishness, ugliness, waspishness