excitability

[ ik-sahy-tuh-bil-i-tee ]

/ ɪkˌsaɪ təˈbɪl ɪ ti /

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noun

the quality of being excitable.

Physiology. irritability.

Nearby words

excise, excise tax, exciseman, excision, excision biopsy, excitability, excitable, excitable area, excitant, excitation, excitation wave

Origin of excitability

First recorded in 1780–90; excitable + -ity

Related formsun·ex·cit·a·bil·i·ty, noun

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Examples from the Web for excitability

Rise of temperature, within limits, enhances the excitability, and therefore the positive curvature under light.
Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919|Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
They prove conclusively the diurnal variation of excitability in Mimosa.
Life Movements in Plants|Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
The most trifling circumstances stimulate their excitability.
Lady Byron Vindicated|Harriet Beecher Stowe
Catching sight of the dog, the spy let himself go with a display of excitability that almost betrayed his Hunnish nationality.
A Sub and a Submarine|Percy F. Westerman

The excitability is enhanced under rising, and depressed under falling temperature.
Life Movements in Plants|Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose