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ANGRINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does angriness mean?
• ANGRINESS (noun)
The noun ANGRINESS has 1 sense:
1. the state of being angry
Familiarity information: ANGRINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being angry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
anger; angriness
Hypernyms ("angriness" is a kind of...):
emotional arousal (the arousal of strong emotions and emotional behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "angriness"):
rage (a state of extreme anger)
Derivation:
angry (feeling or showing anger)
angry ((of the elements) as if showing violent anger)
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