noun. The state or character of being fretful; peevishness; ill humor; disposition to fret and complain; irritability.

noun. The quality of being fretful

noun. an irritable petulant feeling

"A good man may be in want, but then he quiets himself, and strives to make himself easy; but these people when they shall be hungry shall fret themselves, and when they have nothing to feed on their vexation shall prey upon their own spirits; for fretfulness is a sin that is its own punishment."

distemper  ill humor  ill humour  

pet  testiness  tetchiness  touchiness  

contractibility  disconsolation  disquietude  distain  excitability  

anxiety  breathless impatience  chafing  disquietude  eagerness  

fret