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English noun: irritability | |||
| 1. | irritability (feeling) an irritable petulant feeling | ||
| Synonyms | choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | distemper, ill humor, ill humour | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | pet, testiness, tetchiness, touchiness | ||
| 2. | irritability (cognition) excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part | ||
| Synonyms | excitability | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | reactivity, responsiveness | ||
| 3. | irritability (attribute) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | ||
| Samples | His temper was well known to all his employees. | ||
| Synonyms | biliousness, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ill nature | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | querulousness | ||
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