The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disputatious \Dis`pu*ta"tious\, a. Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper.
The Christian doctrine of a future life was no
recommendation of the new religion to the wits and
philosophers of that disputations period.
--Buckminster.
-- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ly, adv. -- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being disputatious or argumentative; contentiousness.
Usage examples of "disputatiousness".
This disputatiousness is partly because the universe is a continuum, and our endeavours to identify discontinuities owe as much to our own human ingenuity and determination as they do to the material reality of what is being classified.