Talk:irritation

Couple lousy defns

1. The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; especially, the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation.
2. A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.

Both of these need trimming and updated wording, with possibly some labels. --Derrib9 (talk) 12:49, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

RFC discussion: August 2021

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irritation

Is it just me, or does the way this definition is written make the reader thing that being sexually stimulated could be described as an irritation. The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; especially, the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation. Wubble You (talk) 17:40, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

It’s not just you, in fact it sounds like any number of pleasant experiences could be thought of as ‘irritations’ under this weird definition and the sense below it is a medical one anyway, so is it really needed at all? I don’t know enough about physiology to help clean it up myself though. Overlordnat1 (talk) 18:58, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, I just stole the definition from Wikipedia, and claim the cleanup as satisfactory. Wubble You (talk) 19:46, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

That may not be wrong: I think sexual stimulation could be described as "irritation", in archaic English. e.g. ..."more or less unintentionally generate in each other a certain amount of sexual irritation, which they foster by mutual touching and kissing"; "It will be almost impossible to relieve the sexual irritation, while this condition of the bowels exists." Equinox ◑ 18:25, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Itch is used this way, as in seven-year itch. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:48, 23 August 2021 (UTC)