quarrelsomeness
- noun
- /ˈkwɔrəlˌsəmnəs/
:
disposición a discutir
- The first time I ever set forth on the streets of Paris, I was with a friend, a woman who occupied a high position in the international organization for which I worked, and who had, as it happened, been mainly responsible for the firing from that organization a year or so before of a Frenchman named Charpentier, the reason being general quarrelsomeness, I think.
Examples
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His constant quarrelsomeness made it difficult for him to maintain friendships.
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The teacher noticed the student's quarrelsomeness during group projects, as he often argued with his classmates.
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Her quarrelsomeness often led to disputes at family gatherings, making everyone uncomfortable.
Synonyms
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8.4
A habit of arguing and causing disagreement
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7.5
A willingness to argue or fight
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9.1
A strong willingness to argue or fight
A tendency to argue a lot with other people
A habit of arguing or disagreeing with others often
A habit of being bad-tempered and hard to get along with
A habit of starting arguments or fights
A quick angry way of behaving that leads to arguments
Antonyms
How Quarrelsome
Surface Forms
Morphology
quarrelsomeness = quarrelsome (transparent) = quarrel + some + ness
Formed by adding the productive suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'quarrelsome', yielding the state or quality; the derivation is regular and predictable.
Etymology
Quarrelsomeness comes from the word quarrel, which grew from an old word meaning 'complaint', together with -some meaning 'tending to' and -ness meaning 'state of'. So quarrelsomeness is the 'state of tending to argue or complain', which explains why it means being often ready to quarrel.