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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
Ursula Burns

Meaning of "crankiness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CRANKINESS

crankiness  [ˈkræŋkɪnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CRANKINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Crankiness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CRANKINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Irritability

Irritability is an excessive response to stimuli. The term is used for both the physiological reaction to stimuli and for the pathological, abnormal or excessive sensitivity to stimuli; It is usually used to refer to anger or frustration. Irritability can be a growing response to the objective stimuli of hunger or thirst in animals or humans which then reaches some level of awareness of that need. Irritability may be demonstrated in behavioral responses to both physiological and behavioral stimuli including environmental, situational, sociological, and emotional stimuli.

Definition of crankiness in the English dictionary

The definition of crankiness in the dictionary is eccentricity. Other definition of crankiness is bad-temperedness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CRANKINESS


achiness
ˈeɪkɪnəs
blockiness
ˈblɒkɪnəs
boskiness
ˈbɒskɪnəs
chalkiness
ˈtʃɔːkɪnəs
chunkiness
ˈtʃʌŋkɪnəs
croakiness
ˈkrəʊkɪnəs
dorkiness
ˈdɔːkɪnəs
flakiness
ˈfleɪkɪnəs
freakiness
ˈfriːkɪnəs
funkiness
ˈfʌŋkɪnəs
geekiness
ˈɡiːkɪnəs
hokeyness
ˈhəʊkɪnəs
hokiness
ˈhəʊkɪnəs
junkiness
ˈdʒʌŋkɪnəs
leakiness
ˈliːkɪnəs
milkiness
ˈmɪlkɪnəs
pawkiness
ˈpɔːkɪnəs
pickiness
ˈpɪkɪnəs
pinkiness
ˈpɪŋkɪnəs
quakiness
ˈkweɪkɪnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CRANKINESS

cranioscopy
craniotomies
craniotomy
cranium
crank
crank handle
crank up
crankcase
crankier
crankiest
crankily
crankish
crankle
crankly
crankness
Cranko
crankous
crankpin
crankshaft
cranky

WORDS THAT END LIKE CRANKINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
comeliness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
friendliness
happiness
holiness
laziness
loneliness
loveliness
readiness
timeliness

Synonyms and antonyms of crankiness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «crankiness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CRANKINESS

Find out the translation of crankiness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of crankiness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «crankiness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

偏执
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

irritabilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

crankiness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

crankiness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

النزعة الغريبة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

комичности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

irritabilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

crankiness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crankiness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kejutan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

crankiness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不機嫌さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

괴팍
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Crankiness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cáu kỉnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

crankiness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अस्वस्थता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

huysuzluk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

irritabilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

crankiness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

комічності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

slăbiciune
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιδιοτροπία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

crankiness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

crankiness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

crankiness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of crankiness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CRANKINESS»

The term «crankiness» is regularly used and occupies the 96.405 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CRANKINESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about crankiness

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2 QUOTES WITH «CRANKINESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word crankiness.
1
Ursula Burns
Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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Jerry Seinfeld
Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRANKINESS»

Discover the use of crankiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to crankiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Contemporary Ideas on Ship Stability
The considerable constant component increasing the ship crankiness appears even without the wind . Recent experimental and calculation research by means of analytical method of Vilensky(l994) executed in the Krylov Research Institute ...
D. Vassalos, M. Hamamoto, D. Molyneux, 2000
2
The Lost Commandment: Have We Missed What Jesus Really Wants?
I'm sure all of us experience this. If I respond to my circumstances with impatience and crankiness, impatience and crankiness multiplies all around me. Not only do I get crankiness in return, but others around me pay my crankiness forward to ...
Dave Greber
3
Dad's Pregnant Too: Expectant Fathers, Expectant Mothers, ...
The pregnant part means that her crankiness is directly related to you. This means that being cranky is not just her problem. Some women will want you to be connected to their crankiness. This might manifest itself in wanting to make you ...
Harlan Cohen, 2008
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Return to the Big Fancy: A Riotous Descent Into the Depths ...
It was one of the handbag buyer's assistants calling to spew crankiness all over Maude by telling her we had to send merchandise out because we were now overbought, and they were going to pull some Coach units from our store. The hell ...
Freeman Hall, 2012
5
Senior Dogs For Dummies
Curbing. crankiness. The older dog may be more likely to grumble, growl, or snap when touched or even approached than a younger pooch. Often, such reactions have physical roots. For example, pain often triggers cranky or even aggressive ...
Susan McCullough, 2011
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Encyclopaedia Of Child Care Welfare And Guidance In 2 Vols.
Crankiness in Babies. Discomfort of any soft — hunger pangs, a scratchy shirt, wet diapers, a new tooth, being overtired, a need to be burped — can cause crankiness in babies. If a baby continues to fuss even after all possible physical ...
Vijaya Wadhwa
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Living in the Now: How to Live as the Spiritual Being That ...
22: ARE YOU CRANKY? Crankiness is an opportunity to discover something about what you are thinking and believing. If you are cranky, ask yourself, “What am I saying to myself about myself, about life, or about others that's making me feel ...
Gina Lake, 2012
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Stepping Into Spiritual Oneness ~ Spiritual Rememberings of ...
Spirit shares that there are a few reasons for this perceived crankiness. It can be due to choosing to empathically, telepathically, and unconsciously to pick up on or be in tuned with another soul's e~motional, thoughtenergy, and axiomal ...
DD Dr Patti Diamondlady Diamond, Patti Diamond, 2006
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Philosophy, Ethics and a Common Humanity: Essays in Honour ...
3. Insanity,. crankiness. and. evil. –. and. other. ways. of. thinking. the. unthinkable. Jonathan. Glover. Orwell said of Gandhi: 'One feels of him that there was much that he did not understand, but not that there was anything that he was  ...
Christopher Cordner, 2012
10
Public Health and Aging: Maximizing Function and Well-Being, ...
Older people who forget a name are called “senile,” dissatisfaction with illness- related activity restrictions is called “crankiness,” and expressions of sexual interest make one a “dirty old man or woman.” Even medical personnel are not above ...
Steven Mark Albert, Vicki A. Freedman, PhD, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRANKINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term crankiness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jonathan Kozol's memoir on aging can stand proudly beside Roz …
(He apparently had fewer compunctions about writing bluntly about his mother's “customary crankiness” and “tartness.”) Kozol also writes of the ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
2
Grandma with Attitude: Mother Nature on a rampage
I think Mother Nature is suffering from PMS. Either that, or a severe case of crankiness. She needs to take care of herself better and go see a ... «Reno Gazette Journal, Jul 15»
3
The crankiness of Mr. White
But an ancient fellow by the name of Richard Grant White seemed to always be a bit cranky, and he took his crankiness out on language. «Michigan Radio, Jul 15»
4
The science of sleeping in, and why you probably shouldn't
And shortchanging our slumber throws our sleep and circadian patterns out of whack, which at best, manifests as crankiness/grogginess and at ... «PBS NewsHour, Jul 15»
5
Jake Peavy, Alex Avila returning to big leagues after rehabbing in …
In his 17th MLB season, Hudson has a 5-7 record with a 4.68 earned-run average and has been bothered by "crankiness" in his pitching ... «AL.com, Jul 15»
6
Are troublemakers worth our attention?
The other half of the time, it is our parents writing the posts, which makes me wonder sometimes if crankiness and lack of tact comes with age. «Free Malaysia Today, Jul 15»
7
60 minutes of music that sum up the venerable, ornery Neil Young
“Comin' Apart At Every Nail” is sort of a political song—foreshadowing a crankiness with the state of the nation that would lead Young to ... «A.V. Club Austin, Jul 15»
8
Marlins' Jose Fernandez returns following 13-month layoff
Hudson, who turns 40 on July 14, acknowledged crankiness in his shoulder this season along with general soreness. The matchup between ... «The Bell Jar, Jul 15»
9
Jon Stewart: Scalia's 'Crankiness' on Some Decisions Shows …
Jon Stewart highlighted Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a "Daily Show" segment on Monday, making jokes about the unusual ... «Newsmax, Jul 15»
10
How Fast Can You Banish Bloat for Summer?
You can't go from regular workouts to crazy, intense, long workouts without risking damaged muscles, carb cravings, crankiness and potential ... «Yahoo Health, Jul 15»

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