upsetness

upsetness

English

Etymology

upset +‎ -ness

Noun

upsetness (uncountable)

1. The quality or degree of being emotionally upset.
   • 2007 July 29, Mary Jo Murphy, “Sex, Love and the Scolding Psychotherapist”, in New York Times‎:

     These Irrational Beliefs will keep your original upsetness vividly alive — instead of letting it die a natural death, as disturbance gradually does if you don’t dwell on it and reinforce it by continual crooked thinking.