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crankiness: a fussy and eccentric disposition

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testiness collapse: feeling easily irritated

zag collapse

cussedness collapse: meanspirited disagreeable contrariness

caprice collapse: a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse"

ugliness collapse: qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses

moodiness collapse: having temperamental and changeable moods; a sullen gloomy feeling

perversity collapse: deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"

backlash collapse: an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence; "there was a backlash of intolerance"

switchback collapse

contraposition collapse

irascibility collapse: a feeling of resentful anger

hairpin collapse: a double pronged pin used to hold women's hair in place

folly collapse: foolish or senseless behavior; the trait of acting stupidly or rashly; the quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness"

idiocy collapse: extreme mental retardation

dogleg collapse: a golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway; angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog

petulance collapse

buffoonery collapse: acting like a clown or buffoon

foolery collapse

repercussion collapse: a remote or indirect consequence of some action; "his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later"

anomaly collapse: (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule

imbecility collapse: retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot

frivolity collapse: the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible

fatuity collapse

whimsy collapse

renitency collapse

lunacy collapse: obsolete terms for legal insanity

ineptitude collapse

stupidity collapse: a stupid mistake; a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience

friction collapse: effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure; the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another

oddity collapse: a strange attitude or habit; eccentricity that is not easily explained

collision collapse: a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals; "a collision of interests"; an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object; "three passengers were killed in the collision"; "the collision of the two ships resulted in a serious oil spill"; (physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together; "the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction"

insanity collapse: relatively permanent disorder of the mind

mindlessness collapse

antagonism collapse: (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure; an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility; the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors; "the inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism"

idiosyncrasy collapse: a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual

recalcitrance collapse

singularity collapse: the quality of being one of a kind; "that singularity distinguished him from all his companions"; strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual

antipathy collapse: the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided; "cats were his greatest antipathy"; a feeling of intense dislike

contradiction collapse: the speech act of contradicting someone; "he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction"; (logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction"; opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas

interference collapse: (American football) blocking a player's path with your body; "he ran interference for the quarterback"

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