Meaning of IRRITABILITY
| Pronunciation: | | `iritu'bilitee
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- [n] a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees"
- [n] excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part
- [n] an irritable petulant feeling
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| | Synonyms: | | biliousness, choler, crossness, excitability, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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| | See Also: | | ill humor, ill humour, ill nature, pet, querulousness, reactivity, responsiveness, testiness, tetchiness, touchiness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ir`ri*ta*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. irritabilitas: cf. F.
irritabilit['e].]
1. The state or quality of being irritable; quick
excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of
temper.
2. (Physiol.) 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, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit
motion under suitable stimulation; esp., the property
which living muscle processes, of responding either to a
direct stimulus of its substance, or to the stimulating
influence of its nerve fibers, the response being
indicated by a change of form, or contraction;
contractility.
3. (Med.) A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or
part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of
stimuli. See {Irritation}, n., 3.
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