Synonyms for Peevishness (same or very similar meaning)
WordNet sense 1 (an irritable petulant feeling):
choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, petulance
WordNet sense 2 (a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger):
biliousness, surliness, temper, pettishness, snappishness
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