fractiousness
nounEtymology From fractious + -ness.
1
The quality of being fractious; trouble-making; unruliness.
- His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN:
2
A peevish or cranky nature.
- Related terms
- fractiously