'Contentiousness' definitions:
Definition of 'contentiousness'
From: WordNet
noun
An inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious [syn: quarrelsomeness, contentiousness]
Definition of 'Contentiousness'
From: GCIDE
- Contentious \Con*ten"tious\, a. [L. contentiosus: cf. F. contentieux.]
- 1. Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome. [1913 Webster]
- Despotic and contentious temper. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- More cheerful, though not less contentious, regions. --Brougham. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. [1913 Webster]
- Contentious jurisdiction (Eng. Eccl. Law), jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed or controverted.
- Syn: Quarrelsome; pugnacious; dissentious; wrangling; litigious; perverse; peevish. -- {Con*ten"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Con*ten"tious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]