irritability
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During World War 2, the military created a training film to help soldiers who may be dealing with "combat irritability".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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
“He constantly reacts as if he’s under attack, which triggers an irritability he can’t control and doesn’t even want to control,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
It wasn't torpor that kept her—she was often restless to the point of irritability.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Whereas this difficulty ceases, if the embryon be supposed to consist of a living filament, which acquires or makes new parts with new irritabilities, as it advances in its growth.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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 Herman Melville
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 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 Walter Pater
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
