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Definition of Touchiness
1. Noun. Feeling easily irritated.
Generic synonyms: Choler, Crossness, Fretfulness, Fussiness, Irritability, Peevishness, Petulance
Derivative terms: Testy, Tetchy, Touchy
Definition of Touchiness
1. n. The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
Definition of Touchiness
1. Noun. the property of being touchy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Touchiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Touchiness
Literary usage of Touchiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Faults of Childhood and Youth by Michael Vincent O'Shea (1920)
"CHAPTER XXXV "touchiness" One has frequently to read and to listen to accounts
of children who are hectored and bullied by their playmates. ..."
2. Waldie's Select Circulating Library by Adam Waldie (1841)
"Wounded vanity is the true origin of all touchiness. tion,—this forbearance,—this
tendency to live and let live,—than to find themselves in contact with ..."
3. Stevenson's Germany: The Case Against Germany in the Pacific by Charles Brunsdon Fletcher (1920)
"And, largely from the national touchiness and the intemperate speech of ...
What Stevenson has called " the national touchiness " explains a great deal, ..."
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