different between excitability vs irritability
excitability
English
Etymology
excite +? -ability
Noun
excitability (countable and uncountable, plural excitabilities)
- (uncountable) The state of being excitable
- (countable) A measure of how easy something is to excite
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irritability
English
Etymology
From Latin irritabilit?s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????t??b?l?ti/
Noun
irritability (countable and uncountable, plural irritabilities)
- The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability
- irritability of temper
- (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.
- 1836, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk
- There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.
- 1800, Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia, Or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening
- We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibres of plants.
- 1836, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk
- (medicine) A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli.
Synonyms
- (state of being irritable): petulance, fretfulness
Translations
References
- irritability in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- irritability in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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