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TETCHINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tetchiness mean?
• TETCHINESS (noun)
The noun TETCHINESS has 1 sense:
1. feeling easily irritated
Familiarity information: TETCHINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling easily irritated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
testiness; tetchiness; touchiness
Hypernyms ("tetchiness" is a kind of...):
choler; crossness; fretfulness; fussiness; irritability; peevishness; petulance (an irritable petulant feeling)
Derivation:
tetchy (easily irritated or annoyed)
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