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say it: FRAK-shuh-snuhs
fractiousness is a noun meaning "the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline". It carries one recorded sense.
the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fractiousness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.