fractiousness
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈfrakshəsnəs/
:
irritabilidad
- During the meeting, the team's fractiousness led to many arguments and disruptions.
Examples
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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.
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The fractiousness within the group became evident when everyone started to voice their disagreements loudly.
Synonyms
14
3.4
A habit of getting angry easily and staying in a bad mood
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4.2
Being easily annoyed or quick to become angry
5
9.0
Being easily annoyed and acting childish
3
6.0
Being easily annoyed and acting in odd, fussy ways
2
6.8
A strong wish to do things your own way and ignore rules
1
8.0
A noisy, energetic way of behaving that is hard to control
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9.3
A tendency to become angry quickly
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5.7
A state of being easily upset or hard to please
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7.2
A tendency to be difficult to control and to disobey rules
A feeling of being nervous, annoyed, or easily upset
A habit of being bad-tempered and hard to get along with
A quality of being unpleasant and hard to get along with that makes people avoid you
A quick angry way of behaving that leads to arguments
Refusal to follow rules or orders
Noisy actions by people who do not follow rules or order
Antonyms
How Fractious
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.