(n.) The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.

anxiety breathless impatience chafing disquietude eagerness excitement fretting haste impatience impatientness impetuousness lather peevishness pettishness petulance petulancy querulousness resentfulness restiveness restlessness shrewishness stew sweat tense readiness uneasiness unpatientness unquietness vixenishness