irritability
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌɪɹɪtəˈbɪlɪti/
irritability
- The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability
- irritability of temper
- (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.
- 1836, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk
- There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.
- 1800, Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia, Or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening
- We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibres of plants.
- 1836, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk
- (medicine) A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli.
- (state of being irritable) petulance, fretfulness
- French: irritabilité
- German: Reizbarkeit, Empfindlichkeit, Irritabilität
- Russian: раздражи́тельность
- Spanish: irritabilidad
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