IRRITABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irritability mean? 

• IRRITABILITY (noun)
  The noun IRRITABILITY has 3 senses:

1. an irritable petulant feeling

2. excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part

3. a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger

  Familiarity information: IRRITABILITY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRRITABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An irritable petulant feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

choler; crossness; fretfulness; fussiness; irritability; peevishness; petulance

Hypernyms ("irritability" is a kind of...):

distemper; ill humor; ill humour (an angry and disagreeable mood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "irritability"):

testiness; tetchiness; touchiness (feeling easily irritated)

pet (a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight))

Derivation:

irritable (easily irritated or annoyed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

excitability; irritability

Hypernyms ("irritability" is a kind of...):

reactivity; responsiveness (responsive to stimulation)

Derivation:

irritable (abnormally sensitive to a stimulus)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

biliousness; irritability; peevishness; pettishness; snappishness; surliness; temper

Context example:

his temper was well known to all his employees

Hypernyms ("irritability" is a kind of...):

ill nature (a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "irritability"):

querulousness (the quality of being given to complaining)

Derivation:

irritable (easily irritated or annoyed)

 Context examples 

When symptoms appear, they include diarrhea, abdominal pain, restlessness, and irritability.

(Hymenolepiasis, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about whether an individual has or had an increase in anger or irritability.

(Have Increased Anger or Irritability, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) Anxiety or irritability.

(COWS - Anxiety or Irritability, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about an individual's irritability at its worst.

(Irritability at its Worst, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical manifestations include fever, muscle pain, respiratory distress, nausea, diarrhea, neck stiffness, irritability, seizures, and lethargy.

(Listeriosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient show any other signs of irritability?

(NPI - Show Any Other Signs of Irritability, NCI Thesaurus)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Severity of the irritability/lability.

(NPI - Irritability/Lability Severity, NCI Thesaurus)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Frequency of the irritability/lability.

(NPI - Irritability/Lability Frequency, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include irritability, fever, failure to thrive, saddle nose, cutaneous rash, and pneumonia.

(Congenital Syphilis, NCI Thesaurus)

The worry is accompanied by restlessness, fatigue, inability to concentrate, irritability, muscle tension, and/or sleep disturbance and lasts for at least 6 months.

(Generalized anxiety disorder, NCI Thesaurus)