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Crossness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    the state of being cross; mild anger countable, uncountable

    "Elizabeth […] wished he were beside her, and was so glad to think he would soon be beside her always, with all his humours and weaknesses, all his little crossnesses and complainings[…]"

  2. 2
    a disposition to be ill-tempered wordnet
  3. 3
    an irritable petulant feeling wordnet

Etymology

From cross + -ness.

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