N. sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness, moral sensibility,
impressibility,
affectibility,
susceptibleness,
susceptibility,
susceptivity,
mobility,
vivacity,
vivaciousness, tenderness, softness,
sentimental,
sentimentality,
sentimentalism,
excitability,
fastidiousness, physical sensibility, sore point, sore place, where the shoe pinches
V. be sensible, have a tender heart, have a warm heart, have a sensitive heart, take to heart, treasure up in the heart,
shrink, "die of a rose in aromatic pain", touch to the quick, touch on the raw, touch a raw nerve
Adj. sensible, sensitive, impressible, impressionable,
susceptive,
susceptible, alive to, impassionable,
gushing, warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted, tender as a chicken, soft,
sentimental, romantic,
enthusiastic,
highflying, spirited,
mettlesome,
vivacious, lively, expressive,
mobile, tremblingly alive, excitable, oversensitive, without skin,
thin-skinned,
fastidious Adv. sensibly, to the quick, to the inmost core
Phr. mens aequa in arduis, pour salt in the wound
N. irascibility,
irascibleness, temper, crossness,
susceptibility,
procacity,
petulance,
irritability,
tartness,
acerbity,
protervity,
pugnacity,
excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper,
irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity &c,
churlishness,
huff, a word and a blow, sir fretful plagiary,
brabbler,
tartar,
shrew,
vixen,
virago,
termagant,
dragon,
scold, xantippe,
porcupine,
spitfire, fire eater,
fury V. be irascible, have a temper, have a devil in one, fire up
Adj. irascible, bad-tempered,
ill-tempered,
irritable,
susceptible, excitable,
thin-skinned,
fretful,
fidgety, on the fret,
hasty,
overhasty, quick, warm, hot,
testy,
touchy,
techy,
tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder,
huffy,
pettish,
petulant,
waspish,
snappish,
peppery,
fiery,
passionate,
choleric,
shrewish, "sudden and quick in quarrel",
querulous,
captious,
moodish,
quarrelsome,
contentious,
disputatious,
pugnacious,
cantankerous,
exceptious, restiff,
churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs,
fractious,
peevish, acaritre, in a bad temper,
sulky,
angry, resentful, resentive,
vindictive Int. pish, phr, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira
