Synonyms for touchiness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : tuhch-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʌtʃ i |
Top 10 synonyms for touchiness Other synonyms for the word touchiness
- acerbity
- all-overs
- animation
- annoyance
- asperity
- bad humor
- butterflies
- cantankerousness
- cold sweat
- creeps
- crossness
- dander
- delirium
- discomfiture
- disquietude
- dithers
- excitability
- feverishness
- fidget
- fidgets
- fit
- flap
- fluster
- fretfulness
- furor
- fuss
- grouchiness
- heat
- hotheadedness
- huffiness
- ill-humor
- irascibility
- irascibleness
- irritability
- irritation
- jump
- jumps
- low boiling point
- miff
- moodiness
- neurasthenia
- neuroticism
- peevishness
- perturbation
- petulance
- pugnacity
- quivers
- resentment
- sensitivity
- shakes
- shiver
- short fuse
- slow burn
- snit
- sourness
- spleen
- stage fright
- stew
- stimulation
- stress
- sullenness
- surliness
- tantrum
- tartness
- tear
- temperament
- tension
- tetchiness
- tiff
- timidity
- tizzy
- to-do
- touchiness
- tremble
- trembles
- tremulousness
- turbulence
- uneasiness
- wax
- willies
- worry
Définition of touchiness
Origin :- "too sensitive," c.1600, perhaps an alteration of tetchy (q.v.) influenced by touch (v.). Related: Touchiness.
- As in nervousness : noun anxious state
- As in temper : noun angriness; bad mood
- As in testiness : noun irritability
- As in irascibility : noun temper
- As in irascibleness : noun temper
- As in jitters : noun nervous restlessness
- As in short fuse : noun temper
- As in tetchiness : noun temper
- It is chronically troubled with "the disease of touchiness."
- Extract from : « Quiet Talks on Power » by S.D. Gordon
- However that may be, you shall never be able to reproach me for touchiness.
- Extract from : « A Laodicean » by Thomas Hardy
- Allow me to tell you, that your petulance and touchiness are almost incredible.
- Extract from : « The Wandering Jew, Complete » by Eugene Sue
- Their touchiness, their affectation, their lack of culture—all are inherent in them.
- Extract from : « An Ocean Tramp » by William McFee
- As to San Francisco's "touchiness" upon the subject there is this much more to be said.
- Extract from : « Abroad at Home » by Julian Street
- There was a simplicity in the man which would have disarmed a touchiness even more youthful than mine.
- Extract from : « The Shadow-Line » by Joseph Conrad
- The desert regions of the West seemed always to breed truculence and touchiness.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Outlaw » by Emerson Hough
- The touchiness of that official does credit rather to his zeal than to his judgment—and, besides, he is obviously no humorist.
- Extract from : « The History of "Punch" » by M. H. Spielmann
- It is a newcomer in the literary world; and it has the self-assertiveness and the touchiness natural to the situation.
- Extract from : « Materials and Methods of Fiction » by Clayton Hamilton
- His touchiness upon the subject of his own benefactions remanded her pleasurably of Reifferscheid.
- Extract from : « She Buildeth Her House » by Will Comfort
Antonyms for touchiness
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