crossness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an irritable petulant feeling
    irritability; choler; fretfulness; petulance; peevishness; fussiness.
  2. noun a disposition to be ill-tempered
    crabbiness; crabbedness.

WordNet


Cross"ness noun
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.

Webster 1913