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TOUCHINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does touchiness mean?
• TOUCHINESS (noun)
The noun TOUCHINESS has 1 sense:
1. feeling easily irritated
Familiarity information: TOUCHINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling easily irritated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
testiness; tetchiness; touchiness
Hypernyms ("touchiness" is a kind of...):
choler; crossness; fretfulness; fussiness; irritability; peevishness; petulance (an irritable petulant feeling)
Derivation:
touchy (quick to take offense)
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