Excitability
81excitable — [[t]ɪksa͟ɪtəb(ə)l[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you describe someone as excitable, you mean that they behave in a rather nervous way and become excited very easily. Mary sat beside Elaine, who today seemed excitable... The staff were somewhat alarmed by the …
82Hitzig, Julius Eduard — (1838–1907) The codiscoverer, along with Gustav Theodor Fritsch (1838–1927), of the principle of the electrical excitability of the brain, Hitzig was born in Berlin, into the family of a well known architect. After gaining his M.D. from… …
83irritability — n. 1. Irascibility, fretfulness, testiness, peevishness, petulance, excitability, snappishness. 2. Susceptibility (to the influence of a stimulus). 3. Excitability, high susceptibility …
84irritable — irritable, fractious, peevish, snappish, waspish, petulant, pettish, huffy, fretful, querulous apply to persons or to their moods or dispositions in the sense of showing impatience or anger without due or sufficient cause. Irritable implies… …
85mania — 1 *insanity, lunacy, psychosis, dementia Analogous words: alienation, derangement, *aberration Antonyms: lucidity 2 Mania, delirium, frenzy, hysteria are comparable when they mean a state of mind in which there is loss of control over emotional,… …
86mania — [mā′nē ə, mān′yə] n. [ME < LL < Gr, madness < mainesthai, to rage < IE base * men , to think, be mentally excited > MIND] 1. wild or violent mental disorder; specif., the manic phase of bipolar affective disorder, characterized… …
87excitableness — noun being easily excited • Syn: ↑excitability, ↑volatility • Derivationally related forms: ↑volatile (for: ↑volatility), ↑excitable, ↑excitable ( …
88volatility — noun 1. the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor • Derivationally related forms: ↑volatile • Hypernyms: ↑chemical property 2. the trait of being unpredictably irresolute the volatility of the market drove many investors… …
89downer — n. a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person. [Colloq.] Syn: sedative, depressant. [WordNet 1.5] …
90excitableness — n. being easily excited. Syn: excitability, volatility. [WordNet 1.5] …
