argumentativeness

La Russa was given a field sobriety test and, per ESPN, was described as “argumentative” while being taken into custody.

In this way I probably developed the strain of argumentativeness, or perhaps combativeness, which has always remained with me.

There is a happy precision, a pithy brevity, a condensed argumentativeness.

His trenchant criticisms of literature, his keen delight in politics, his lively argumentativeness, were charming to her.

Her merry laughter brings relief from Schleiermacher's subtle argumentativeness and Friedrich's transcendental irony.