"irritability" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌɪɹɪtəˈbɪlɪti/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-irritability.wav [Southern-England] Forms: irritabilities [plural]
Etymology: From Latin irritabilitās, equivalent to irritable + -ity. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|irritabilitās}} Latin irritabilitās, {{af|en|irritable|-ity}} irritable + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} irritability (countable and uncountable, plural irritabilities)
  1. The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (state of being irritable): petulance, fretfulness Translations (state or quality of being irritable): раздразнителност (razdraznitelnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), irritabilitat [feminine] (Catalan), 應激性 /应激性 (yìngjīxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), iritiĝebleco (Esperanto), ärsytettävyys (Finnish), ärsyyntyvyys (Finnish), ärtyvyys (Finnish), irritabilité [feminine] (French), Reizbarkeit [feminine] (German), Empfindlichkeit [feminine] (German), Irritabilität [feminine] (German), ευερεθιστότητα (everethistótita) [feminine] (Greek), iritabilitas (Indonesian), colgaí [feminine] (Irish), drisíneacht [feminine] (Irish), frisnéiseacht [feminine] (Irish), gairge [feminine] (Irish), greannaitheacht [feminine] (Irish), lasántacht [feminine] (Irish), meirg [feminine] (Irish), colg [masculine] (Irish), irritabilità [feminine] (Italian), тітіркенгіштік (titirkengištik) (Kazakh), раздразливост (razdrazlivost) [feminine] (Macedonian), надразливост (nadrazlivost) [feminine] (Macedonian), irritabilitet [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), irritabilitet [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), irritabilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), iritabilitate [feminine] (Romanian), раздражи́тельность (razdražítelʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), irritabilidad [feminine] (Spanish), pagkatalusaling (Tagalog)
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  2. (physiology) 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. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  3. (medicine) A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-irritability-en-noun-~OQpn5iv Categories (other): Medicine Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: hyperirritability, superirritability

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      "word": "petulance"
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      "word": "fretfulness"
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "state or quality of being irritable",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "state or quality of being irritable",
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    },
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      "code": "kk",
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      "roman": "titirkengištik",
      "sense": "state or quality of being irritable",
      "word": "тітіркенгіштік"
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      "code": "mk",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "state or quality of being irritable",
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      "word": "irritabilidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
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      "word": "раздражи́тельность"
    },
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "state or quality of being irritable",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "tl",
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      "word": "pagkatalusaling"
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