captiousness

English

Etymology

captious +‎ -ness

Noun

captiousness (usually uncountable, plural captiousnesses)

1. the state of being captious
2. captious behaviour

Quotations

• 1819, Timothy Dwight, Theology: Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons:

  In this manner, they degrade religion into a spirit of captiousness.