quarrelsomeness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkwɒɹəlsm̩nəs/ (UK)
Etymology
Etymology tree English quarrelsome Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English quarrelsomeness From quarrelsome + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being quarrelsome; an argumentative nature.
Perhaps this excitement had begun much earlier, as I reflected afterwards when I recalled snatches of talk, and at the same time the increased quarrelsomeness of the convicts and the moroseness and peculiar irritability that had been conspicuous in them of late. I had put it down to the hard work, the long wearisome summer days, the unconscious dreams of the forest, and of freedom and the brief nights, in which it was difficult to get enough sleep.
1920, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The House of the Dead:
Translations (9)
ga anglántacht (quality of being quarrelsome) · ga bruíonachas (quality of being quarrelsome) · ga iarógacht (quality of being quarrelsome) · am ነገረኛነት (quality of being quarrelsome) · ga achrannaí (quality of being quarrelsome) · cs hádavost (quality of being quarrelsome) · ga clampracht (quality of being quarrelsome) · ga treasaíocht (quality of being quarrelsome) · ga sceachaireacht (quality of being quarrelsome)