irritableness
Easily provoked mood
Irritableness is the quality of being easily annoyed or provoked to impatience.
The word is a less common variant of irritability, which dominates in both everyday and clinical contexts: His irritableness after a poor night's sleep made him difficult to work with.
Ill-tempered disposition
- testinessEasily provoked irritation
- peevishnessIrritable, querulous disposition
- grouchinessIll-tempered state
- cantankerousnessIll-tempered, quarrelsome nature
surliness · petulance · crossness · grumpiness · snappishness · touchiness · fretfulness · querulousness
State of unease
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
- edginessRestless nervous tension
- impatienceIntolerance of delay
- tensionStretched or strained state
anxiety · unease · jitteriness · fidgetiness · excitability · stress · disquiet · perturbation
Readiness to feel slighted
- hypersensitivityExaggerated response to stimuli
- reactivityTendency to chemically combine
- oversensitivityExcessive emotional reactivity
- susceptibilityLiability to influence
vulnerability · overreaction · delicacy · fragility · prickliness · defensiveness
crankiness
Ill-tempered disposition
- testinessEasily provoked irritation
- peevishnessIrritable, querulous disposition
- grouchinessIll-tempered state
cantankerousness · surliness · petulance · crossness · grumpiness · snappishness · touchiness · fretfulness · querulousness · fractiousness
restlessness
State of unease
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
- edginessRestless nervous tension
- impatienceIntolerance of delay
tension · anxiety · unease · jitteriness · fidgetiness · excitability · stress · disquiet · perturbation · agitation
touchiness
Readiness to feel slighted
- hypersensitivityExaggerated response to stimuli
- reactivityTendency to chemically combine
- oversensitivityExcessive emotional reactivity
susceptibility · vulnerability · overreaction · delicacy · fragility · prickliness · defensiveness
irritablenesspatience
Calm during delays
equanimity · calmness · serenity · composure · tranquility
irritablenessamiability
Friendly, agreeable temperament
good-naturedness · affability · agreeableness · geniality · amiableness
irritate, irritable, irritation, irritating, irritated, irascible, irritant, irritability, irritates