irritability

Simon says that broken sleep, caused by a partner's snoring, can lead to irritability, arguments, and - if it is decided that sleeping in separate rooms is needed - reduced intimacy.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

He described attempting the keto diet as a “near-psychotic event” brought on by sugar withdrawal, joking that giving someone in his position that much irritability could have geopolitical consequences.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

It also fueled his irritability and erratic behavior, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Clinicians call this the “prescribing cascade”: An antidepressant causes insomnia, so a sleep aid is added; a stimulant causes irritability, so a mood stabilizer follows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026

He shrugged, shoulders thick with sudden irritability, as though he could not believe she did not recognize her good fortune.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

He recalled irritabilities, small acts and exclamations of impatience, boredom, "blues."

From His Family by Ernest Poole

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

In this early formation of the embryon from the irritabilities, sensibilities, and associabilities, and consequent appetencies, the faculty of volition can scarcely be supposed to have had its birth.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

The little irritabilities which degrade humanity only prolong their mischievous existence, while the surface of life stagnates in calm.

From Blind Love by Wilkie Collins

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