irritability

irritability has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• n.. The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.
• n.. A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under suitable stimulation; esp., the property which living muscle processes, of responding either to a direct stimulus of its substance, or to the stimulating influence of its nerve fibers, the response being indicated by a change of form, or contraction; contractility.
• n.. A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.
• n.. a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees"
• n.. excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part
• n.. an irritable petulant feeling