Irritability Definition

noun

The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.

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(physiology) A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways.

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(medicine) A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli.

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Noun

Singular:
irritability
Plural:
irritabilities

Origin of Irritability

  • From Latin irritabilitas.

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Irritability Sentence Examples

  • This irritability is, as you know, chiefly directed to political questions.

  • Her irritability had suddenly quite vanished, and her anxious, imploring eyes were fixed on him with greedy expectation.

  • Irritability resides in the pulvinus,in the pea and bean family, in rosaceous plants and the family Rubiaceae.

  • As a satirist and observer he is simply the "Cooper who 's written six volumes to prove he's as good as a Lord" of Lowell's clever portrait; his enormous vanity and his irritability find vent in a sort of dull violence, which is exceedingly tiresome.

  • Carlyle's constitutional irritability made him intensely sensitive to petty annoyances.

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