Words and phrases that have a meaning related to fractiousness: (124 results)
Often used in the same context:
unease, disunity, indecision, indecisiveness, nervousness, impatience, strife, pusillanimity, uneasiness, rancor, pessimism, ambivalence, tepidness, factionalism, tentativeness, dissension, turmoil, discord, duplicity, angst, acrimony, infighting, unsettlement, obduracy, intransigence, dysfunction, vacillation, obstinacy, fecklessness, malaise, disquietude, embroilment, timidity, tetchiness, antagonism, tensions, upheaval, sluggishness, hostility, latent hostility, contrariness, judeophobia, dissidence, capriciousness, chaos, tumult, combativeness, disenchantment, rockiness, belligerence, animosity, ineptitude, wariness, inexorability, misgovernance, unsettledness, jitters, schisms, ineffectualness, bitterness, bedevilment, lawlessness, volatility, skittishness, intransigency, inconsistency, stubbornness, optimism, instability, joylessness, restlessness, venality, cravenness, petulance, disillusionment, cynicism, inconstancy, irascibility, sheepishness, disarray, distrust, incoherence, irreconcilability, gutlessness, diffidence, pragmatism, parochialism, bedlam, inefficiency, atavism, incompetence, frustration, reticence, ineptness, wishfulness, recalcitrance, spinelessness, stodginess, uncertainty, cussedness, obstreperousness, troubles, bickerings, compulsion, defensiveness, dialectic, discontent, necessity, negativity, togetherness, actings, actualization, advocacy, affirmation, alienations, aliment, amelioration
More specific:
perverseness, perversity
More general:
intractability, intractableness
Synonyms:
Also try:unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness
— Adjectives for fractiousness: political, such, internal, constant, very, mere, human
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