irritation

irritation has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion; provocation; annoyance; anger.
• n.. The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation.
• n.. 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.
• n.. the act of troubling or annoying someone
• n.. unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
• n.. an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
• n.. a sudden outburst of anger; "his temper sparked like damp firewood"
• n.. the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
• n.. the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
• n.. (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation; "any food produced irritation of the stomach"