irritationとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪɹɪˈteɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

irritation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 irritations)

1. The act of irritating or annoying

   What irritation causes you to be so moody?

2. The state of being irritated
   • 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 172:

     Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.

3. A things or person that annoys

   Synonym: pain in the neck

4. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; especially, the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation.
5. 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.
   • 1975, Richard I. Feinbloom, ‎Children's Hospital Medical Center , Child Health Encyclopedia: The Complete Guide for Parents

     Hip pain is a common complaint in children and may indicate a very mild irritation in the hip joint or may be the symptom of a very severe abnormality

派生語

関連する語

• irritate

Further reading

• irritation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• irritation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.