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Irritability
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(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.
(2):
(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.
(3):
(n.) The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Irritability'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/i/irritability.html. 1828.
