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QUERULOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does querulousness mean?
• QUERULOUSNESS (noun)
The noun QUERULOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being given to complaining
Familiarity information: QUERULOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being given to complaining
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("querulousness" is a kind of...):
biliousness; irritability; peevishness; pettishness; snappishness; surliness; temper (a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger)
Derivation:
querulous (habitually complaining)
Context examples
Querulousness was out of the question.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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