Crossword clues for excitability
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excitability \Ex*cit"a*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. excitabilit['e].]
The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.
(Physiol.) The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being excitable 2 (context countable English) A measure of how easy something is to excite
WordNet
n. excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part [syn: irritability]
being easily excited [syn: excitableness, volatility]
Usage examples of "excitability".
This reagent not only diminishes the excitability, but causes a very great prolongation of the period of recovery.
Despite the excitability of his nature, which often led to outbursts of hysteria, he had the patience to wait and the shrewdness to realize that the climate of material prosperity and of a feeling of relaxation which settled over Germany in those years was not propitious for his purposes.
I steeled myself for the long flight to come, anticipating the classic symptoms of nicotine withdrawal plus jet-lag: excitability, hyperirritability, racing thoughts, etc.
It had suddenly occurred to Cassy to make use of the superstitious excitability, which was so great in Legree, for the purpose of her liberation, and that of her fellow-sufferer.
The Motion which acts upon Sensible objects enters from without, and so shakes, drives, rouses and thrusts its participants that they may neither rest nor preserve their identity--and all to the end that they may be caught into that restlessness, that flustering excitability which is but an image of Life.
Masturbation prevents the excitability of the nervous system and sexual organs and causes debility, which is indicated by the premature discharge of semen during sexual intercourse.
Among the two or three hundred partyers, some were tripping on some exhibited the particular excitability and talkativeness typical of cokeheads, but Junior succumbed to none of these temptations.
It was the old Chinese torture of tickling the soles of the feet magnified a hundredfold, only here there were no feathers, only the countless insidious probing needles of Actedron jabbing every screaming nerve-end into a frantic frenzy, an undreamed of pitch of frenetic excitability.
With the increase of the chronic disease, which had thus, apparently, taken too sure hold upon her constitution to be eradicated by human means, I could not fail to observe a similar increase in the nervous irritation of her temperament, and in her excitability by trivial causes of fear.