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excitability

n. excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part

temper, biliousness, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness

n. a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees"

crossness, peevishness, fussiness, choler, fretfulness, petulance

n. an irritable petulant feeling

sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility

n. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain"

disposition, temperament

n. your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"

bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice

n. a rough and bitter manner

abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, shortness

n. an abrupt discourteous manner

irony, sarcasm, satire, caustic remark

n. witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift

spleen, irascibility, quick temper, short temper

n. a feeling of resentful anger

nature

n. the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions; "it is his nature to help others"

fiber, fibre, character

n. the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer

morale, esprit de corps, team spirit

n. the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed

position, attitude, posture

n. the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender"

humor, sense of humor, humour

n. the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"

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