Irritation
[ɪrɪ'teɪʃn] or [,ɪrə'teʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed.
(noun.) (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation; 'any food produced irritation of the stomach'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion; provocation; annoyance; anger.
(n.) 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; esp., 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.
(n.) 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.
Typed by Judy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Irritating.[2]. Exasperation, provocation, wrath, ire, anger, passion, excitement, indignation, resentment.[3]. (Med.) Inflammation (by friction).
Checker: Lyman
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See IRRITATE]
Typist: Winfred
Examples
- Then she said, with a slight touch of irritation: I don't care to accept a portrait from Paul Morpeth. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But he repeated sweetly: 'Some local irritation, ma'am? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In my youth, I should have chafed and fretted under the irritation of my own unreasonable state of mind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He hung silent in irritation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The gleaming blondness of his strange, imminent being put the father into a fever of fretful irritation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If she went near him the irritation might be kept up. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His aunt worried him by her cares, and Sir Thomas knew not how to bring down his conversation or his voice to the level of irritation and feebleness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- As for the main subject of the letter, there was nothing in that to soothe irritation. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Gerald knitted his brows in momentary irritation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She crimsoned, half in irritation, half in shame. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- At this time, last year, you were suffering from nervous irritation, and you slept wretchedly at night. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr Wegg slowly subdues his ironical tone and his lingering irritation, and resumes his pipe. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Yes, said Will, impetuously, shaking his head backward, and looking away from her with irritation in his face. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Pray do not mention him in that light again, uncle, said Dorothea, feeling some of her late irritation revive. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There is a spirit of irritation which, to say nothing worse, is certainly very ill-bred. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The senseless legend of German superiority did much to exacerbate the irritations of the Poles in Posen and the French in Lorraine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And the irritations and hardships and the general insecurity of the new time were exacerbated by a profound disturbance of currency and credit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Sinclair