touchiness

But there's more to public touchiness over last week's sketch than just pious indignation.

Swift showed a complete absence of the ordinary touchiness of authors.

The "touchiness" of the world in general affords tactless persons a perennial source of offended astonishment.

Tactil′ity, state of being tactile: touchiness; Tac′tion, act of touching: sense of touch.

But at this time they developed a new touchiness; possibly Lent was partly accountable.

Touchiness, when it becomes chronic, is a morbid condition of the inward disposition.