Word
Irritability
How many syllables?
6 Syllables
How it's divided?
ir-ri-ta-bil-i-ty
Definition
- n. - The state or quality of being irritable; quick
excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.
- n. - 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.
- n. - 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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