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testiness
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, waspishnessFor further exploring for "testiness" in Webster Dictionary Online