"Irritation" is a word in ENGLISH
The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited
to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense,
when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of
exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as,
the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of
a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation.
A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness
of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of
ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of
being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and
uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion;
provocation; annoyance; anger.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by …
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