irritation
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French irritation, from Latin irrītātiō, from irrītāre, present active infinitive of irrītō (“I excite”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
irritation (countable and uncountable, plural irritations)
- The act of irritating or annoying
- What irritation causes you to be so moody?
- The state of being irritated
- 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, page 172:
- Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
- A things or person that annoys
- Synonym: pain in the neck
- (physiology) a state of inflammation or painful reaction to allergy or cell-lining damage.
- 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.
- 1975, Richard I. Feinbloom, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Child Health Encyclopedia: The Complete Guide for Parents:
- Hip pain is a common complaint in children and may indicate a very mild irritation in the hip joint or may be the symptom of a very severe abnormality
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Translations edit
the act of irritating
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the act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation
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oversensitiveness of part of the body
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Further reading edit
irritation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “irritation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “irritation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin irrītātiōnem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
irritation f (plural irritations)
- irritation (all senses)
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Further reading edit
- “irritation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.