aggravation

Meanings

1. The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
2. Exaggerated representation.
3. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
4. A feeling of being provoked by irritation and annoyance; the feeling of being riled up or increasingly irritated.

Etymology

From Middle French aggravation.