What's the difference between impetuosity and snappish?

Impetuosity


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition or quality of being impetuous; fury; violence.
  • (n.) Vehemence, or furiousnes of temper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since several conflict observation techniques incorporate the impetuosity of an evasive action during a conflict, the relation between inpetuosity and dangerousness was investigated.
  • (2) A discussion examines the risk factors responsible for the fatalities--namely, youthful impetuosity, carelessness, and ethanol use.
  • (3) The 16PF test reveals immature impetuosity on the part of the mothers as a main finding and introversion in the fathers.
  • (4) Blackwood, too, can be proud of the way he played for this is a batsman of impetuosity at times who controlled his emotions to finish unbeaten with 47 from 104 balls with four fours and a six.

Snappish


Definition:

  • (a.) Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.
  • (a.) Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those who only see him on the pitch know him by his stage persona: this incredibly competitive, snappish and possibly slightly mad striker.
  • (2) It won the James Tait Black Prize, but was still received by some critics as almost hurtfully factual: the tone snappish, the refusal to flirt with the reader's expectations of personality taken as a snub.
  • (3) In a snappish exchange at the White House, the media responded.