MEANING
A tendency to become irritated or angry easily.
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Words that belong together
- habitual irascibility
- growing irascibility
- a reputation for irascibility
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His irascibility made every request feel like an interruption.
She noticed an irascibility in herself that the long journey had not fully caused.
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- irascibility
Usage notes
Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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