Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pettishness
1 sense of pettishness
Sense 1
temper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness -- (a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees")
=> ill nature -- (a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition)