touchiness

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touch·y (t

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adj. touch·i·er, touch·i·est

1. Tending to take offense with slight cause; oversensitive.

2. Requiring special tact or skill in handling; delicate: a touchy situation.

3. Highly sensitive to touch. Used of a body part.

4. Easily ignited; flammable.

touchi·ly adv.

touchi·ness n.

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Noun

touchiness - feeling easily irritated

testiness, tetchiness

choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance - an irritable petulant feeling

Translations

touchiness [ˈtʌtʃɪnɪs] N → susceptibilidad f

touchiness

n → Empfindlichkeit f (→ on in Bezug auf +acc); (= irritability also) → leichte Reizbarkeit; because of the touchiness of this subject → weil dieses Thema so heikel ist

touchiness [ˈtʌtʃɪnɪs] n → permalosità f inv, suscettibilità f inv

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