'Pettishness' definitions:
Definition of 'pettishness'
From: WordNet
noun
A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees" [syn: temper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness]
Definition of 'Pettishness'
From: GCIDE
- Pettish \Pet"tish\, a. [From Pet.] Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper. "A pettish kind of humor." --Sterne. -- {Pet"tish*ly}, adv. -- {Pet"tish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]