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[syn: testiness, touchiness, tetchiness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Testiness \Tes"ti*ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.
   [1913 Webster]
         Testiness is a disposition or aptness to be angry.
                                                  --Locke.
   [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
testiness
    n 1: feeling easily irritated [syn: testiness, touchiness,
         tetchiness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "testiness":
   bearishness, bitchiness, cantankerousness, churlishness,
   crabbedness, crankiness, crossness, crustiness, cussedness,
   disagreeability, excitability, fractiousness, huffiness,
   huffishness, irascibility, irritability, meanness, orneriness,
   perversity, snappishness, ugliness, waspishness