touchiness

noun

Definition of touchinessnext
as in sensitivity

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  1. sensitivity
  2. rudeness
  3. hostility
  4. animosity
  5. unfriendliness
  6. antagonism
  7. antipathy
Noun
  • Bank supervisors globally have a framework to assess banks’ capital, asset quality, management, earnings, liquidity and sensitivity to market risk.
    Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Some individuals attached to the Trump administration wanted to remove Mr. Barr before his term as vice chair expired, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on background because of the sensitivity of the issue.
    Deborah B. Solomon, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of sensitivity
Noun
  • Many adults will think that the host’s rudeness justifies an angry response — and of course, that would vastly entertain the children.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • However, sometimes that truth can come off as blunt to the point of rudeness.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of rudeness
Noun
  • On several occasions tensions between the two countries — NATO allies divided by deep historical antagonisms — have stirred powerful nationalist passions and brought them to the brink of hostilities.
    Alan Cowell, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
  • In it, Elphaba and Galinda profess their undying friendship; suffice it to say that Grande found the notion of treating her co-star with violent hostility an acting challenge.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of hostility
Noun
  • Both sides would have to overcome years of animosity to work toward an agreement.
    Barak Ravid, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Kaiser has treated us with animosity and anger in response.
    Janel L Medina, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of animosity
Noun
  • Images accompanied by verbal descriptions of their generosity and kindness resulted in higher scores of facial attractiveness than when the same images were accompanied by negative traits like selfishness and unfriendliness.
    Sable Yong, TIME, 28 June 2024
  • Each of the 1,200 mainstream vehicles the ACEEE evaluates is given an overall Green Score that can be used to compare the relative environmental friendliness – or unfriendliness as the case may be – from one model to another.
    Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Definition of unfriendliness
Noun
  • Both stories are unusually accurate in their sense of hostile inclusion, with French pioneers, Native tribes and white Americans in a state of perpetual antagonism.
    Chris Vognar, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Yet Trump’s position as president of the United States—the largest funder and primary backer of numerous international organizations—makes his antagonism uniquely consequential.
    Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of antagonism
Noun
  • Its emphasis on civilizational identity and antipathy to liberal internationalism creates opportunities for entanglements with illiberal states, such as China and Russia, that share the goal of dethroning Western liberalism and the U.S.-led international order. Loading...
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Despite the industry’s antipathy for Joe Biden, U.S. oil output has climbed steadily during his presidency to a record 13 million bpd of oil and 125 bcfd of natural gas today.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of antipathy
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