Prickliness

prick·ly  (prkl)

adj. prick·li·er, prick·li·est

1. Having prickles.

2. Marked by prickling or tingling or smarting: a prickly sensation in my foot.

3.

a. Causing trouble or vexation; thorny: a prickly situation.

b. Bristling or irritable: "In consequence, he became rebarbative, prickly, spiteful" Robert Craft.

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prickli·ness n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

prickliness - the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines bristliness, spininess, thorniness raggedness, roughness - a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven