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Feeling easily irritated
Answer for the clue "Feeling easily irritated ", 10 letters:
touchiness
Word definitions for touchiness in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. feeling easily irritated [syn: testiness , tetchiness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the property of being touchy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Touchiness \Touch"i*ness\ (t[u^]ch"[i^]*n[e^]s), n. The quality or state of being touchy; peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
Usage examples of touchiness.
These were not riskless things to say to Augusta, who was justly famed for her touchiness and tantrums.
He looked the sort of small man whose touchiness over his size drove him to pump iron and collect guns.
That urgency might have been stsho anxiety about having a hani male on their handsstsho didn't understand hani touchiness about their menfolk (stsho were no more constitutionally certain what 'male' meant than hani were about the stsho's third gender) but an old diplomat like No'shto-shti-stlen certainly understood that they were touchy, and that it was an issue that could come back and cause trouble of unforeseen dimensions.
That urgency might have been stsho anxiety about having a hani male on their hands -- stsho didn't understand hani touchiness about their menfolk (stsho were no more constitutionally certain what 'male' meant than hani were about the stsho's third gender) but an old diplomat like No'shto-shti-stlen certainly understood that they were touchy, and that it was an issue that could come back and cause trouble of unforeseen dimensions.
That urgency might have been stsho anxiety about having a hani male on their hands-stsho didn't understand hani touchiness about their menfolk (stsho were no more constitutionally certain what 'male' meant than hani were about the stsho's third gender) but an old diplomat like No'shto-shti-stlen certainly understood that they were touchy, and that it was an issue that could come back and cause trouble of unforeseen dimensions.