FRACTIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fractiousness mean? 

• FRACTIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun FRACTIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline

  Familiarity information: FRACTIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRACTIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fractiousness; unruliness; wilfulness; willfulness

Hypernyms ("fractiousness" is a kind of...):

intractability; intractableness (the trait of being hard to influence or control)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fractiousness"):

contrariness; perverseness; perversity (deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline)

wildness (an unruly disposition to do as one pleases)

Derivation:

fractious (easily irritated or annoyed)

fractious (stubbornly resistant to authority or control)

 Context examples 

His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked—and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)