| Petulancy (n.) The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. Thesaurus Entries anxiety, breathless impatience, chafing, disquietude, eagerness, excitement, fretting, haste, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, lather, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, petulancy, querulousness, resentfulness, restiveness, restlessness, shrewishness, stew, sweat, tense readiness, uneasiness, unpatientness, unquietness, vixenishness |