irritability
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Dementia tends to be thought of mostly as a memory-loss disease, but there are many other aspects, including disorientation, difficulty balancing, poor coordination, trouble multitasking, confusion, wandering, apathy, irritability, impulsivity, poor judgment, and social inappropriateness.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2026
"When access is disrupted, some young people may initially experience irritability, restlessness, or a sense of social disconnection… not because the platform itself is essential, but because a familiar coping mechanism has been removed."
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
People with autism may take medication to reduce anxiety, address attention problems, or reduce severe irritability.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025
Just knowing that your irritability could be linked to fluctuations can make you feel like you’re not crazy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
He could feel Sekai’s irritability at not being allowed to nap.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
It were sickening to detail all the paltry irritabilities, jealousies, and cabals, the spiteful detractions and animosities, that lurk far down, and cling to the very kelson of the ship.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman
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 Pater, Walter
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 Darwin, Erasmus
He recalled irritabilities, small acts and exclamations of impatience, boredom, "blues."
From His Family by Poole, Ernest
False pride, constant whining, or insupportable irritabilities gradually force them into a dreary class apart.
From The Living Present by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
