Dictionary Definition
fractiousness n : the trait of being prone to
disobedience and lack of discipline [syn: unruliness, willfulness, wilfulness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
See fractiousNoun
- The quality of being fractious; trouble-making;
unruliness
- "His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed."--F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1
- A peevish or cranky nature