Crossword-Solution: IRRITABILITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Irritability | n. | The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper. |
| Irritability | 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. |
| Irritability | 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. |
We have 32 clues for the answer “IRRITABILITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| quick excitability to annoyance, impatience, or anger | 1 answer |
| ability to respond to stimulus | 1 answer |
| ERETHISM | 1 answer |
| ABILITY to respond to a stimulus | 1 answer |
| Badgering | 6 answers |
| Grumpiness | 6 answers |
| testiness | 7 answers |
| PNEUMOCOCCAL meningitis disease, symptom of | 8 answers |
| Petulance | 9 answers |
| Peevishness | 9 answers |
| cynicism | 13 answers |
| Bile | 19 answers |
| fretfulness | 19 answers |
| provocation | 21 answers |
| teasing | 28 answers |
| aggravation | 30 answers |
| Bitterness | 44 answers |
| Irritation | 58 answers |
| Pique | 58 answers |
| susceptibility | 60 answers |
| harassment | 60 answers |
| Grief | 61 answers |
| Pest | 62 answers |
| Problem | 70 answers |
| Plague | 70 answers |
| Displeasure | 71 answers |
| Fuss | 71 answers |
| Frenzy | 75 answers |
| Passion | 78 answers |
| Torment | 81 answers |
| Bother | 92 answers |
| Anger | 94 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with IRRITABILITY (5)
Towards Phœbe, as we have said, she was affectionate,—far tenderer than ever before, in their brief acquaintance, except for that one kiss on the preceding night,—yet with a continually recurring pettishness and irritability.
Indeed, the infirmity of Wamba’s brain consisted chiefly in a kind of impatient irritability, which suffered him not long to remain quiet in any posture, or adhere to any certain train of ideas, although he was for a few minutes alert enough in performing any immediate task, or in apprehending any immediate topic.
Lapham wanted to know what the news from Irene was; he joined his wife in all her cheerful speculations, and tried to make her amends for his sullen reticence and irritability.
Elinor paid her every quiet and unobtrusive attention in her power; and she would have tried to sooth and tranquilize her still more, had not Marianne entreated her, with all the eagerness of the most nervous irritability, not to speak to her for the world.
And then, it was impossible not to feel tenderly to a despair which had so ceased to be aggressive--not to forgive a great deal of apathy to a temper which had so unlearned its irritability.
Quotes with IRRITABILITY (3)
Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. I’ve checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that?
In the first place I spent most of my time at home, reading. I tried to stifle all that was continually seething within me by means of external impressions. And the only external means I had was reading. Reading, of course, was a great help--exciting me, giving me pleasure and pain. But at times it bored me fearfully. One longed for movement in spite of everything, and I plunged all at once into dark, underground, loathsome vice of the pettiest kind. My wretched passions were…
To feel attached is to feel safe and secure. By contrast, an insecurely attached person may have a mixture of feelings towards their attachment figure: intense love and dependency, fear of rejection, irritability and vigilance. One may theorise that their lack of security has aroused a simultaneous wish to be close and the angry determination to punish their attachment figure for the minutest sign of abandonment. It is though the insecurely attached person is saying to themse…