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fractiousness

fractiousness

1 9.9
A tendency to be easily annoyed and hard to control
  • noun
  • /ˈfrakshəsnəs/
translation icon : irritabilidad
  • During the meeting, the team's fractiousness led to many arguments and disruptions.

Examples

  • The devolution of authority to local officials has brought some benefits, to be sure, but it has also exacerbated the fractiousness of the country's already chaotic politics.

    Academic text (2004)
  • And trying to graft feminism, with all that fractiousness, onto atheism/skepticism looks like a very good recipe for disaster.

    Blog text (2)
  • This fractiousness has long been the South's greatest weakness, and successive governments in the North have exploited it, arming one tribe to attack another in order to keep the South divided.

    Academic text (2011)
  • But Americans have grown increasingly frustrated—understandably so—over Afghan fractiousness and the still fragile state of security in the countryside.

    Blog text (14)
  • And if virtue has its place, then it is not clear why governments cannot promote virtues like apology, forgiveness, and the like, especially if they help to bolster legitimacy and overcome fractiousness within new regimes.

    Academic text (2007)
  • They had Somalian anarchy, Haitian poverty, Congolese institutions, Balkan fractiousness, and a North Korean-style government.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The fractiousness of the children made it difficult for the teacher to maintain order in the classroom.

  • The fractiousness within the group became evident when everyone started to voice their disagreements loudly.

Synonyms

bad temper
vsfractiousness
14 3.4

A habit of getting angry easily and staying in a bad mood

adds a behavioural side, meaning also hard to control or manage
irritability
vsfractiousness
8 4.2

Being easily annoyed or quick to become angry

also includes being difficult to control or manage, not just feeling annoyed
petulance
vsfractiousness
5 9.0

Being easily annoyed and acting childish

is broader, adding unruly or hard to manage behaviour beyond sulking
crankiness
vsfractiousness
3 6.0

Being easily annoyed and acting in odd, fussy ways

stresses difficulty to manage as well as being irritable
willfulness
vsfractiousness
  • US
2 6.8

A strong wish to do things your own way and ignore rules

is similar but emphasises irritability as well as willful acts
rambunctiousness
vsfractiousness
1 8.0

A noisy, energetic way of behaving that is hard to control

is more about a short temper and being difficult to manage personally
irascibility
vsfractiousness
  • Formal
1 9.3

A tendency to become angry quickly

is similar but also highlights trouble with control and obedience
fussiness
vsfractiousness
1 5.7

A state of being easily upset or hard to please

is broader, including open unruliness and refusal to obey
unruliness
vsfractiousness
1 7.2

A tendency to be difficult to control and to disobey rules

also carries a mood of irritability or bad temper, not just disobedience
fretfulness
vsfractiousness
7.7

A feeling of being nervous, annoyed, or easily upset

is stronger in behaviour, implying active resistance to control
cantankerousness
vsfractiousness
9.2

A habit of being bad-tempered and hard to get along with

leans more toward general trouble controlling behaviour rather than just arguing
disagreeableness
vsfractiousness
8.1

A quality of being unpleasant and hard to get along with that makes people avoid you

is more about active resistance to control, not only social mood
truculency
vsfractiousness
  • Formal
9.9

A quick angry way of behaving that leads to arguments

includes aggression but also covers general unruly hard-to-manage behaviour
refractoriness
vsfractiousness
  • Formal
9.9

Refusal to follow rules or orders

adds an emotional irritability element beyond mere resistance
disorderliness
vsfractiousness
6.0

Noisy actions by people who do not follow rules or order

focuses more on personal irritability and difficult temperament, not chaos

Antonyms

38 5.1

Calm control of your feelings and actions in a difficult situation

How Fractious

disorder
31 3.7
unruliness
1 7.2
fractiousness
1 9.9
irritability
8 4.2
calmness
9 2.7

Surface Forms

fractiousness singular

Morphology

fractiousness = fractious (transparent) = fractious + ness

A straightforward nominalization of the adjective 'fractious' using the productive suffix '-ness' indicating the state or quality of being fractious.

Etymology

Fractiousness comes from the root fract-, which means 'break' and is the same root in words like fracture and fraction. Think of someone who 'breaks' the calm or the rules, so fractiousness is the quality of being easily angry or hard to control.