The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Surliness \Sur"li*ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being surly.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

surliness
    n 1: a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper
         was well known to all his employees" [syn: temper,
         biliousness, irritability, peevishness,
         pettishness, snappishness, surliness]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "surliness":
   abruptness, aggressiveness, bearishness, beastliness, bluntness,
   boorishness, bouderie, brashness, brusqueness, brusquerie,
   churlishness, crustiness, curtness, dejection, dumpishness,
   glumness, grimness, gruffness, grumness, harshness, melancholy,
   moodiness, moodishness, mopishness, moroseness, nastiness,
   roughness, severity, sharpness, shortness, sulkiness, sullenness,
   truculence