"irritancy" meaning in English

See irritancy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: irritancies [plural]
Etymology: From irritant + -cy. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|irritant|cy}} irritant + -cy Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} irritancy (countable and uncountable, plural irritancies)
  1. The quality of being irritant or irritating. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-irritancy-en-noun-F1~Kj47J
  2. (law, Scotland) The state or quality of being null and void; invalidity Tags: Scotland, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-irritancy-en-noun-Wu0vEgC3 Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -cy, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 82 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cy: 28 72 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 13 87 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 91 Topics: law
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: photoirritancy

Inflected forms

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