Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌɪɹɪˈteɪʃən/
irritation
- The act of irritating or annoying
- What irritation causes you to be so moody?
- The state of being irritated
- The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; especially, the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation.
- A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
- French: irritation
- German: Ärger, Irritation, Verärgerung
- Russian: раздраже́ние
- Spanish: irritación
- German: Irritation
- Russian: возбужде́ние
- German: Irritation
- Russian: раздраже́ние
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