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IRASCIBILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does irascibility mean?
• IRASCIBILITY (noun)
The noun IRASCIBILITY has 1 sense:
1. a feeling of resentful anger
Familiarity information: IRASCIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A feeling of resentful anger
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
irascibility; quick temper; short temper; spleen
Hypernyms ("irascibility" is a kind of...):
bad temper; ill temper (a persisting angry mood)
Derivation:
irascible (characterized by anger)
irascible (quickly aroused to anger)
Context examples
“It had been left to her, unconditionally, by her first husband,” Mr. Murdstone began, when my aunt caught him up with the greatest irascibility and impatience.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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