irascibilityn.
/ɪˌrasᵻˈbɪlᵻti//ʌɪˌrasᵻˈbɪlᵻti/ The quality of being irascible; proneness to anger, quickness of temper, irritability.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [noun]
hastinessc1325
melancholya1375
hastivenessa1393
hastivessa1393
rese?a1400
hastivitya1500
fumishness1519
choler1530
firishness1568
cholericness1571
waspishness1593
fieriness1625
irascibility1750
parlousness1755
temper1828
provocability1834
quickness1863
tempersomeness1909
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 40. ⁋1 They seldom fail of giving proofs of their irascibility upon the slightest attack of criticism.
1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 204 Pope's irrascibility prevailed.
1814 I. D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. I. 204 The statements of Cibber..shew sufficient motives to have excited the poetic irascibility.
1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth I. 117 The fallibility and irascibility of human nature.
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