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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
fretfulness
    n 1: an irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability,
         crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness,
         petulance, choler]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fretful \Fret"ful\, a. [See 2d Fret.]
   Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of
   vexation; as, a fretful temper. -- Fret"ful*ly, adv. --
   Fret"ful*ness, n.

   Syn: Peevish; ill-humored; ill-natured; irritable; waspish;
        captious; petulant; splenetic; spleeny; passionate;
        angry.

   Usage: Fretful, Peevish, Cross. These words all
          indicate an unamiable working and expression of
          temper. Peevish marks more especially the inward
          spirit: a peevish man is always ready to find fault.
          Fretful points rather to the outward act, and marks a
          complaining impatience: sickly children are apt to be
          fretful. Crossness is peevishness mingled with
          vexation or anger.
          [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Fretfulness:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
anxiety, breathless impatience, chafing, disquietude, eagerness, excitement, fretting, haste, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, lather, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, petulancy, querulousness, resentfulness, restiveness, restlessness, shrewishness, stew, sweat, tense readiness, uneasiness, unpatientness, unquietness, vixenishness
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