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Petulance vs Peevishness - What's the difference?

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Petulance is a related term of peevishness.


As nouns the difference between petulance and peevishness

is that petulance is the property of being petulant while peevishness is the state of being peevish.

petulance

English

Noun

  • The property of being petulant.
  • * Clarendon
    • Like pride in some, and like petulance in others.
  • * Cowper
    • The lowering eye, the petulance , the frown.
  • * 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 29 (ISBN 1857150570)
    • She had not done this, but had shown herself angry and sore, and was now ashamed of her own petulance , and yet unable to discontinue it.

    peevishness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being peevish.