upsetness

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English

Etymology

upset +‎ -ness

Noun

upsetness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or degree of being emotionally upset.
    • 2007 July 29, Mary Jo Murphy, “Sex, Love and the Scolding Psychotherapist”, in New York Times[1]:
      These Irrational Beliefs will keep your original upsetness vividly alive — instead of letting it die a natural death, as disturbance gradually does if you don’t dwell on it and reinforce it by continual crooked thinking.