different between motivation vs irritation

English

Etymology

From French motivation.Morphologically motivate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

motivation (plural motivations)

1. Willingness of action especially in behavior.
2. The action of motivating.
3. Something which motivates.
4. An incentive or reason for doing something.
5. (advertising) A research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial affect consumer intention to consider, visit, or buy something.

   The motivation scores showed that 65% of people wanted to visit our website to learn more about the offer after watching the commercial.

Derived terms

• intrinsic motivation
• extrinsic motivation

Translations

References

• (advertising, research rating that measures how a commercial affect consumer intention): The Advertising Research Handbook Charles E. Young, Ideas in Flight, Seattle, WA, April 2005

Danish

Etymology

From French motivation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /motivasjo?n/, [mot?iva??o??n]

Noun

motivation c (singular definite motivationen, plural indefinite motivationer)

1. motivation
2. incentive

Inflection

Synonyms

• motivering

Related terms

• motiv
• motivere
• motiveret

Further reading

• motivation on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Etymology

motiver +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo.ti.va.sj??/

Noun

motivation f (plural motivations)

1. motivation

Derived terms

• lettre de motivation

Further reading

• “motivation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

From French motivation.

Noun

motivation c

1. motivation; willingness of action

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French irritation, from Latin irr?t?ti?, from irr?t?re, present active infinitive of irr?t? (“I excite”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

irritation (countable and uncountable, plural irritations)

1. The act of irritating or annoying

   What irritation causes you to be so moody?

2. The state of being irritated
3. The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; especially, the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation.
4. A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.

Derived terms

Related terms

• irritate

Translations

Further reading

• irritation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• irritation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Latin irr?t?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.?i.ta.sj??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: irritations

Noun

irritation f (plural irritations)

1. irritation (all senses)

Related terms

• irriter

Further reading

• “irritation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).