Word.ws English Dictionary

irritancy

irritancy noun: the quality of being irritant or irritating.

Noun

irritancy (countable and uncountable, plural irritancies)

  1. The quality of being irritant or irritating.
  2. (Scotland) The state or quality of being null and void; invalidity

irritancy meaning in Tamil

irritancy in Tamil

செல்லுபடியாகாததாகச் செய்தல், செல்லுபடியாகாதிருத்தல்

Forms of irritancy

pluralirritancies

Origin of irritancy

From irritant + -cy.

Words formed from irritancy

Questions about irritancy

What does irritancy mean?
Irritancy means the quality of being irritant or irritating.
What is irritancy in Tamil?
Irritancy in Tamil is செல்லுபடியாகாததாகச் செய்தல், செல்லுபடியாகாதிருத்தல். See Irritancy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is irritancy?
Irritancy is a noun.
What is the plural of irritancy?
The plural of irritancy is irritancies.

Words near irritancy in the dictionary

  1. irritably
  2. irritainment
  3. irritance
  4. irritances
  5. irritancies
  6. irritancy
  7. irritant
  8. irritants
  9. irritatable
  10. irritate
  11. irritated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: irritancy (page history and authors); irritancy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “irritancy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/irritancy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.