Contentiousness Synonyms

The quality or state of being argumentative
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. argumentativeness
  2. combativeness
  3. disputatiousness
  4. litigiousness
  5. scrappiness
Warlike or hostile attitude or nature
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bellicoseness
  2. bellicosity
  3. belligerence
  4. belligerency
  5. combativeness
  6. hostility
  7. militance
  8. militancy
  9. pugnaciousness
  10. pugnacity
  11. truculence
  12. truculency

Contentiousness Sentence Examples

  • His vanity, his pride of opinion and his inborn contentiousness were serious handicaps to him in his political career.

  • He was impetuous, intense and often vehement, unflinchingly courageous, devoted with his whole soul to the cause he had espoused; but his vanity, his pride of opinion and his inborn contentiousness were serious handicaps to him in his political career.

  • The growing contentiousness of their relationship which split the cast into "cliques" was one of the season's biggest story lines.