IRRITABILITY
Dictionary entry overview: What does irritability mean?
• IRRITABILITY (noun)
The noun IRRITABILITY has 3 senses:
1. an irritable petulant feeling
2. excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part
3. a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
Familiarity information: IRRITABILITY used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• IRRITABILITY (noun)
Meaning:
An irritable petulant feeling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
choler; crossness; fretfulness; fussiness; irritability; peevishness; petulance
Hypernyms ("irritability" is a kind of...):
distemper; ill humor; ill humour (an angry and disagreeable mood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "irritability"):
testiness; tetchiness; touchiness (feeling easily irritated)
pet (a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight))
Meaning:
Excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
excitability; irritability
Hypernyms ("irritability" is a kind of...):
reactivity; responsiveness (responsive to stimulation)
Meaning:
A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
pettishness; snappishness; surliness; biliousness; peevishness; irritability; temper
Context example:
his temper was well known to all his employees
Hypernyms ("irritability" is a kind of...):
ill nature (a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "irritability"):
querulousness (the quality of being given to complaining)
