cantankerosity

The quality of being cantankerous.

Sir, the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Keitt] made a speech, and if I may be allowed to coin a word, I will say it had more cantankerosity in it than any speech I ever heard on this floor.

“This is a case for phlebotomy.” / “I’ll phlebotomize you!” retorted Vie, irascibly. / “Worse and worse Strong indications of internal cantankerosity, requiring an immediate application of Croton oil and ipecacuanha, infused in an oyster stew, to be superseded by a nicotine fumigation.

Someone or something that is cantankerous.

His whole life is one prolonged cantankerosity.

One writer refers to certain purists as “antieverythingarians”; another speaks of the “cantankerosities” of ill-natured people; while still another characterises mankind, truly enough, as “mammonolaters.”