'Petulance' definitions:
Definition of 'petulance'
From: WordNet
noun
An irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance, choler]
Definition of 'Petulance'
From: GCIDE
- Petulance \Pet"u*lance\, Petulancy \Pet"u*lan*cy\, n. [L. petulania: cf. F. p['e]tulance. See Petulant.] The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. "The petulancy of our words." --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Petulance, Peevishness. -- Peevishness implies the permanence of a sour, fretful temper; petulance implies temporary or capricious irritation. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'petulance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arbitrariness,
- beef,
- beefing,
- bellyache,
- bellyaching,
- bitch,
- bitching,
- caprice,
- capriciousness,
- cold comfort,
- complaining,
- complaint,
- crankiness,
- crotchetiness,
- destructive criticism,
- disappointment,
- discontent,
- discontentedness,
- discontentment,
- disgruntlement,
- dissatisfaction,
- dissatisfiedness,
- dissent,
- divine discontent,
- envy,
- fancifulness,
- fantasticality,
- faultfinding,
- Faustianism,
- freakishness,
- fretfulness,
- grievance,
- gripe,
- griping,
- groan,
- groaning,
- grouse,
- grousing,
- grumbling,
- holler,
- howl,
- humorsomeness,
- ill humor,
- kick,
- kicking,
- moodiness,
- motivelessness,
- murmuring,
- peeve,
- peevishness,
- pet peeve,
- pettishness,
- petulancy,
- protest,
- querulousness,
- quirkiness,
- rebelliousness,
- resentfulness,
- resentment,
- restiveness,
- restlessness,
- scolding,
- shrewishness,
- sniping,
- sourness,
- squawk,
- squawking,
- sulkiness,
- temperamentalness,
- uneasiness,
- unfulfillment,
- unhappiness,
- unpleasure,
- unsatisfaction,
- vexation of spirit,
- vixenishness,
- whimsicality,
- whimsicalness,
- whimsy,
- whining,
- yapping