vexatiousnessn.
/vɛkˈseɪʃəsnəs/, U.S. /vɛkˈseɪʃəsnəs/ The state or quality of being vexatious.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > annoying or vexatious quality
uneasiness1387
noyfulnessa1398
troublousness1530
irksomeness1533
troublesomeness1548
molestiousness1559
sturtsomenessa1586
incommodiousnessa1631
gallingness1647
vexatiousness1650
annoyingness1864
jarringness1865
peskiness1869
tryingness1897
bastardism1993
1650 E. Ellis Sudden & Cloudy Messenger 10 O London, what vexatiousnesse of Spirit hast thou?
1668 Bp. E. Hopkins Vanity of World 36 There is a fourfold Vexatiousness in all worldly things.
1704 W. Kennett Case of Impropriations 72 The vexatiousness of the Monks.
1797 Reasons against National Despondency 155 The Laws or the Treaties which bind the Republic..served no purpose..except that of vexatiousness, to have inserted them.
1824 J. Bentham & P. Bingham Bk. Fallacies i. i. §1 The incognoscibility, the expensiveness, the dilatoriness, the vexatiousness of the system of judicial procedure.
a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) v. 300 Amidst the vexatiousness of the most complicated case..he sat..serenely.
1900 Weekly Standard & Express (Blackburn) 12 May 8/2 If you have some urgent or disagreeable thing to do or say, let it be done or said with the least vexatiousness to others.
1945 Times 15 Mar. (Late London ed.) 6/5 The author knows..what miracles of improvisation would be accomplished in spite of the vexatiousness of things and people.
2012 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 7 Apr. (Business section) 2 Readers may have heard us labouring this point before, to the verge of vexatiousness, but it has never been refuted.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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