fractiousness
English
Etymology
fractious + -ness
Noun
fractiousness (uncountable)
- The quality of being fractious; trouble-making; unruliness.
- 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter I, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 884653065; republished New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, →ISBN:
- His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.
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- A peevish or cranky nature.
Related terms
- fractiously