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Audacity vs Irritability - What's the difference?

audacity | irritability |

As nouns the difference between audacity and irritability

is that audacity is insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional while irritability is the state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.

audacity

English

Noun

(audacities)
  • Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.
    • The brash private had the audacity to criticize the general.
    Somebody never pays his loans, yet he has the audacity to ask the bank for money.
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  • Fearlessness, intrepid daring.

    • Synonyms

    * (insolent boldness) audaciousness, outdaciousness, temerity

    Related terms

    * audacious

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    irritability

    English

    Noun

  • The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.
  • (physiology) A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways.
  • * E. Darwin
    • We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibres of plants.
  • (medicine) A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli.

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