Usually means: Irritability and inclination towards quarrelsomeness.
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  1. fractiousness: Merriam-Webster
  2. fractiousness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fractiousness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fractiousness: Vocabulary.com
  5. fractiousness: Wordnik
  6. fractiousness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. fractiousness: Wiktionary
  8. fractiousness: Dictionary.com
  9. fractiousness: Rhymezone
  10. fractiousness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. fractiousness: FreeDictionary.org
  12. fractiousness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. fractiousness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fractiousness)

▸ noun:  The quality of being fractious; trouble-making; unruliness.
▸ noun:  A peevish or cranky nature.

Similar:
unruliness, willfulness, wilfulness, fracturability, frattiness, fractuosity, frangibility, anfractuousness, irritableness, erraticness, more...

Opposite:
docility, compliance, obedience, submissiveness

Types:
belligerence, animosity, antagonism, virulence, recalcitrance, contumaciousness, more...

Adjectives:
political, such, internal, constant, very, mere, human

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Similar:
unruliness, willfulness, wilfulness, fracturability, frattiness, fractuosity, frangibility, anfractuousness, irritableness, erraticness, more...

Opposite:
docility, compliance, obedience, submissiveness

Types:
belligerence, animosity, antagonism, virulence, recalcitrance, contumaciousness, more...

Adjectives:
political, such, internal, constant, very, mere, human



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