Synonyms and related words :
aggressiveness, agitability, bearishness, bellicosity, belligerence, bickering, bitchiness, cantankerousness, churlishness, combativeness, combustibility, contentiousness, contrariness, crabbedness, crankiness, crossness, crustiness, cussedness, difficultness, disagreeability, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dourness, edginess, emotional instability, emotionalism, eruptiveness, excitability, excitableness, explosiveness, faction, factiousness, flak, fractiousness, frowardness, huffiness, huffishness, infighting, inflammability, irritability, latent violence, litigiousness, meanness, nervousness, orneriness, partisan spirit, partisanship, perturbability, perverseness, perversite, perversity, prickliness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, sensitivity, shrewishness, skittishness, snappishness, startlishness, stuffiness, sulkiness, sullenness, tempestuousness, testiness, touchiness, ugliness, violence, waspishness, waywardness, wrongheadedness