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touchiness

touchiness noun: the property of being touchy.

Noun

touchiness (usually uncountable, plural touchinesses)

  1. (usually) The property of being touchy.
    • The engine seemed a little sensitive to wet rails, and in consequence the uphill work was not so good north of Dundee as it had been earlier. But I have noted this same "touchiness" on the part of the "A4s", and other modern British 4-6-2s, so that in this respect No. 2006 proved no exception.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9

touchiness meaning in Urdu and Kannada

touchiness in Urdu

حساسی, نازک مزاجی

touchiness in Kannada

ಸಿಡುಕು, ಕೆರಳಿಕೆ

Forms of touchiness

pluraltouchinesses

Origin of touchiness

From touchy + -ness.

Questions about touchiness

What does touchiness mean?
Touchiness means the property of being touchy.
What is touchiness in Urdu?
Touchiness in Urdu is حساسی, نازک مزاجی. See Touchiness meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is touchiness?
Touchiness is a noun.
What is the plural of touchiness?
The plural of touchiness is touchinesses.

Words near touchiness in the dictionary

  1. touchholes
  2. touchier
  3. touchiest
  4. touchily
  5. touchin'
  6. touchiness
  7. touchinesses
  8. touching
  9. touching a nerve
  10. touching and going
  11. touching ball

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: touchiness (page history and authors); touchiness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); touchiness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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