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TESTINESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does testiness mean?

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

1. feeling easily irritated

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

Dictionary entry details

• TESTINESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Feeling easily irritated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

testiness; tetchiness; touchiness

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

choler; crossness; fretfulness; fussiness; irritability; peevishness; petulance (an irritable petulant feeling)

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