Severity vs Irritability - What's the difference?
severity | irritability |
The state of being severe.
The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness.
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
(medicine) A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli.
As nouns the difference between severity and irritability
is that severity is the state of being severe while irritability is the state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.severity
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Noun
(severities)- The severity of the offence merits a long prison sentence.
irritability
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Noun
- We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibres of plants.