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View synonyms for excitability

excitability

[ ik-sahy-tuh-bil-i-tee ]

noun

  1. the quality of being excitable.
  2. Physiology. irritability.


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Other Words From

  • unex·cita·bili·ty noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of excitability1

First recorded in 1780–90; excitable + -ity

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Example Sentences

The reflex excitability is lowered and the sensibility diminished.

It had been a brilliant brain, and that very excitability that had lent its brilliance was fatal to it now.

Here we may see the universal transition from sensibility to acute excitability which is a source of many quarrels.

The climate of Florida is also of peculiar advantage in all diseases attended by nervous excitability.

Whether they recognize each other by touch or by their mutual excitability I do not know.

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