- irascibility
- Synonyms and related words:aggressiveness, agitability, bearishness, bellicosity, belligerence, bickering, bitchiness, cantankerousness, churlishness, combativeness, combustibility, contentiousness, contrariness, crabbedness, crankiness, crossness, crustiness, cussedness, difficultness, disagreeability, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dourness, edginess, emotional instability, emotionalism, eruptiveness, excitability, excitableness, explosiveness, faction, factiousness, flak, fractiousness, frowardness, huffiness, huffishness, infighting, inflammability, irritability, latent violence, litigiousness, meanness, nervousness, orneriness, partisan spirit, partisanship, perturbability, perverseness, perversite, perversity, prickliness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, sensitivity, shrewishness, skittishness, snappishness, startlishness, stuffiness, sulkiness, sullenness, tempestuousness, testiness, touchiness, ugliness, violence, waspishness, waywardness, wrongheadedness
Moby Thesaurus. Grady Ward. 1996.