Synonyms of the word

irritation

• n. The act of irritating or annoying.
• n. The state of being irritated.
• n. The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition…
• n. A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which…

abnormalcy

• n. Alternative form of abnormality.

abnormality

• n. The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
• n. Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature.

aggravation

• n. The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity…
• n. Exaggerated representation.
• n. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

aggression

• n. The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
• n. The practice or habit of launching attacks.
• n. Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.

annoyance

• n. (countable) That which annoys.
• n. (countable) An act or instance of annoying.
• n. (uncountable) The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.

annoying

• adj. Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
• v. present participle of annoy.

arousal

• n. The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
• n. Sexual arousal.
• n. A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart…
• n. Arousal from sleep or hibernation.

botheration

• n. The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
• interj. An expression of annoyance.

chafe

• n. Heat excited by friction.
• n. Injury or wear caused by friction.
• n. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
• n. (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.
• v. (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
• v. (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
• v. (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
• v. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
• v. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
• v. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

discomfort

• n. Mental or bodily distress.
• n. Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.
• v. To cause annoyance or distress to.
• v. (obsolete) To discourage; to deject.

excitation

• n. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
• n. The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
• n. (physiology) The activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of…
• n. (physics) The change in state as an excited state is formed by the absorption of a quantum of energy.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

innervation

• n. The act of innervating or stimulating.
• n. Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous…
• n. The distribution of nerves in an animal, or to any of its parts.

mistreatment

• n. Improper treatment, abuse.

pique

• n. A feeling of enmity between two entities; ill-feeling, animosity; a transient feeling of wounded pride.
• n. A feeling of irritation or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; offence, especially taken…
• n. (obsolete) Keenly felt desire; a longing.
• v. (transitive) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to excite to anger.
• v. (reflexive) To take pride in; to pride oneself on.
• v. (transitive) To excite (someone) to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate (a feeling,…
• n. In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts…
• n. A chigger or jigger, Tunga penetrans.
• n. A durable ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.

provocation

• n. The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something.
• n. Something that provokes; a provocative act.
• n. (emergency medicine) The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms…

sensitisation

• n. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of sensitization.

sensitization

• n. The process of making something sensitive.

soreness

• n. The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.

suffering

• adj. Experiencing pain.
• n. The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
• v. present participle of suffer.

temper

• n. A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.
• n. State of mind.
• n. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture…
• n. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler,…
• n. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone…
• n. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
• n. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating…
• n. Middle state or course; mean; medium.
• n. (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used…
• v. To moderate or control.
• v. To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
• v. To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
• v. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
• v. (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.
• v. (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
• v. (archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element;…
• v. (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

vexation

• n. The act of annoying, vexing, or irritating.
• n. The state of being vexed or irritated.