irritation

Meaning

Noun

• The act of irritating or annoying
• The state of being irritated
• A things or person that annoys
• a state of inflammation or painful reaction to allergy or cell-lining 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.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French irritation, from Latin irrītātiō, from irrītāre, present active infinitive of irrītō