irritation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The act of irritating or annoying.
The state of being irritated.
A thing or person that annoys.
A state of inflammation or of painful reaction to cell or tissue damage.
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.

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irritation irritations

Borrowed from Middle French irritation, from Latin irrītātiō, from irrītāre (“to excite”). By surface analysis, irritate + -ion.

pain in the neck

irritable irritate

abirritation counterirritation irritant irritational irritative photoirritation

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