as in irritableness
readiness to show annoyance or impatience
the librarian's well-known irritability makes students hesitant to ask questions
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Recent Examples of irritability
Along with their headache, children may experience stomach pain and irritability.
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Sarah Hudgens, Health, 17 May 2025
And as little as 1 milligram of yellow dye No. 5 may cause irritability, restlessness and sleep disturbances for sensitive children.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025
Your personality or mood changes Several symptoms that aren’t memory-related are associated with early Alzheimer's and dementia, including irritability, depression, anxiety, and apathy.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
Mood swings, irritability, headaches, acne, and cramps are some of the most common symptoms suffered by women during the week leading up to menstruation.
—María Quiles, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2025
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Sarah Hudgens, Health, 17 May 2025
And as little as 1 milligram of yellow dye No. 5 may cause irritability, restlessness and sleep disturbances for sensitive children.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025
Your personality or mood changes Several symptoms that aren’t memory-related are associated with early Alzheimer's and dementia, including irritability, depression, anxiety, and apathy.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
Mood swings, irritability, headaches, acne, and cramps are some of the most common symptoms suffered by women during the week leading up to menstruation.
—María Quiles, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irritability
Noun
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His aggression remains — Meyers is seeing just 3.59 pitches per plate appearance and has absurd numbers against the first pitch of a plate appearance — but has cut down on chasing in the middle of at-bats, allowing for some longer battles.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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Every day of inaction is an act of aggression against the system that protects our elders from poverty and indignity.—
Teresa Ghilarducci,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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Law enforcement officials believe the man, Ramon Morales Reyes, never wrote a letter that Noem and her department shared with a message written in light blue ink expressing anger over Trump’s deportations and threatening to shoot him in the head with a rifle at a rally.—
Mike Balsamo,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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Law enforcement officials believe the man, Ramon Morales Reyes, never wrote a letter that Noem and her department shared with a message written in light blue ink expressing anger over Trump's deportations and threatening to shoot him in the head with a rifle at a rally.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
1 June 2025
Noun
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Still, 70% of our business has some degree of traffic sensitivity.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
29 May 2025
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The band is asking for a heightened level of sensitivity.—
Lawrence Burney,
Pitchfork,
28 May 2025
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That love affair with Moss was the foundation and the bulldozer to Culture Club, at times keeping George grounded and at others sparking the singer's legendary petulance.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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While Jean Seberg once imbued Cécile with girlish petulance, McInerny gives the role an electric charge of ambivalence.—
Natalia Winkelman,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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The hostility of the state intensified with the BBC's 100 Women list, and a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.—
Mahrang Baloch,
Time,
10 June 2025
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Intense hostility all around means that for now, neither Russia nor China is even willing to sit down to discuss nuclear restraints, in treaty form or otherwise.—
Matthew Bunn,
The Conversation,
6 June 2025
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As the film progresses, this wide-eyed curiosity shifts to righteous indignation, but these reactions are muddled by her feelings for Basem.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
11 Apr. 2025
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But there’s vulnerability buried in that sort of indignation.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
16 May 2025
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“Irritability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irritability. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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