Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Scots law, the state of being irritant or of no force, or of being null and void.
  • noun The state of being irritant or of exciting irritation; the quality of irritating.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Scots Law) The state or quality of being null and void; invalidity; forfeiture.
  • noun The state or quality of being irritant or irritating.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality of being irritant or irritating.

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Examples

  • Candle fragrances can use a wider variety of ingredients, often cheaper, since they don't need to adhere to standards like on-skin irritancy or being an allergen when applied to the body.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Anne-Marie 2007

  • Candle fragrances can use a wider variety of ingredients, often cheaper, since they don't need to adhere to standards like on-skin irritancy or being an allergen when applied to the body.

    Candle Making - Set up and Melting Anne-Marie 2007

  • Although they aren't legally required by the Food and Drug Administration to test their products, every year the cosmetics industry kills millions of animals in the process of testing their wares for skin irritancy, eye tissue damage and general toxicity cheaper to kill animals than deal with pesky lawsuits from unhappy consumers.

    Estelle Hayes: Your Personal Grooming Products Could Be Making You Sick Estelle Hayes 2011

  • Although they aren't legally required by the Food and Drug Administration to test their products, every year the cosmetics industry kills millions of animals in the process of testing their wares for skin irritancy, eye tissue damage and general toxicity cheaper to kill animals than deal with pesky lawsuits from unhappy consumers.

    Estelle Hayes: Your Personal Grooming Products Could Be Making You Sick Estelle Hayes 2011

  • The ticking became the only sound they both heard, tapping away with irritancy, in the middle of a staring contest affecting Lindsey's psyche.

    Beyond Logic: A Matter of Time H-M Brown 2011

  • First it will be illegal to test on animals for skin and eye irritancy, sensitivity to light, corrosivity, absorption through the skin and genetic and acute toxicity, whether or not there are alternatives available.

    The European Union Leading the Way for Compassion 2009

  • An unidentified irritant (s) may also be present in the tissues; boiling reduces irritancy.

    Chapter 32 1987

  • The Queen sat till far in the night, packing jewels: but it came to nothing; in that peaked frame of irritancy the

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Wise surely to decline: for, besides this of Grains and all the rest, there is in these times an Improvised insurrectionary Commune passing into an Elected legal one; getting their accounts settled, -- not without irritancy!

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • British readers consider him, during these current months, but as an uneasy interruption to their ways of thought and digestion; and indicate so much, not without a certain irritancy and even spoken invective.

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

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