irritation

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Middle French irritation, from Latin irrītātiō, from irrītāre (“to excite”). By surface analysis, irritate +‎ -ion. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/ (US) IPA(key): /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɪɹ.əˈteɪ.ʃən/ (General American, Canada, mirror–nearer merger) IPA(key): /ˌiɹ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/ Rhymes: -eɪʃən === Noun === irritation (countable and uncountable, plural irritations) The act of irritating or annoying. The state of being irritated. A thing or person that annoys. Synonym: pain in the neck (physiology) A state of inflammation or of painful reaction to cell or tissue damage. 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. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== irritable irritate ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== irritation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “irritation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “irritation”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Danish == === Etymology === From Latin irrītātiō. === Noun === irritation c (singular definite irritationen, plural indefinite irritationer) irritation (medicine, physiology) irritation, inflammation ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== irritere === Further reading === “irritation” in Den Danske Ordbog == French == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin irrītātiō. By surface analysis, irriter +‎ -ation. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /i.ʁi.ta.sjɔ̃/ Rhymes: -ɔ̃ Homophone: irritations === Noun === irritation f (plural irritations) irritation === Further reading === “irritation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012