irritability
noun
the quality or state of being irritable.
irritabilities
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pluralof irritability.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The dim stir of chemical atoms towards the axes of a crystal form, the trance-like life of plants, the animal troubled by strange irritabilities, are stages which anticipate consciousness.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
The extremities of other canals have been shewn to possess correspondent sensibilities, or irritabilities, as the two ends of the urethra, and of the common gall-duct.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Whereas this difficulty ceases, if the embryon be supposed to consist of a living filament, which acquires or makes new parts with new irritabilities, as it advances in its growth.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Of course there are a good many of these things which disappear together with the body, such as the glooms, suspicions, and cloudy irritabilities, which are caused by fatigue and malaise, and by ill-health generally.
From The Child of the Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson
The dim stir of chemical atoms towards the axis of crystal form, the trance-like life of plants, the animal troubled by strange irritabilities, are stages which anticipate consciousness.
From Appreciations, with an Essay on Style by Walter Pater
