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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TOUCHINESS

n.tuch'iness. [from touchy. ] Peevishness; irritability; irascibility.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TOUCHINESS

TOUCHINESS Touch "i *ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

touchiness

touchiness noun the visitors' touchiness about defeat: sensitivity, oversensitivity, hypersensitivity; irritability, tetchiness, testiness, crotchetiness, irascibility, peevishness, querulousness, bad-temperedness, short-temperedness, hot-temperedness, quick-temperedness, snappiness, captiousness, prickliness, edginess, crossness, surliness, crustiness, curmudgeonliness, cantankerousness, petulance, waspishness, pettishness, quarrelsomeness, spleen, grumpiness, fractiousness, tension; informal grouchiness, crankiness, rattiness, stickiness.