Definitions for annoyance
əˈnɔɪ ənsan·noy·ance

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. irritation, annoyance, vexation, botherationnoun

   the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed

2. annoyance, chafe, vexationnoun

   anger produced by some annoying irritation

3. aggravator, annoyancenoun

   an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating

4. annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the assnoun

   something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness

   "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"

5. annoyance, annoying, irritation, vexationnoun

   the act of troubling or annoying someone

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. annoyancenoun

   That which annoys.

2. annoyancenoun

   An act or instance of annoying.

3. annoyancenoun

   The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.

4. Etymology: anuiance, anoiance, from the verb anuier. Compare Modern French ennui

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Annoyancenoun

   Etymology: from annoy.

   1. That which annoys; that which hurts.

   A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wand’ring hair,
   Any annoyance in that precious sense. William Shakespeare, King John.

   Crows, ravens, rooks, and magpies, are great annoyances to corn. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   2. The state of being annoyed; or act of annoying.

   The spit venom of their poisoned hearts breaketh out to the annoyance of others. Richard Hooker, b. v. § 2.

   The greatest annoyance and disturbance of mankind, has been from one of those two things, force or fraud. South.

   For the further annoyance and terrour of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. John Wilkins, Math. Mag.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Annoyance

   Annoyance is an unpleasant mental state that is characterized by irritation and distraction from one's conscious thinking. It can lead to emotions such as frustration and anger. The property of being easily annoyed is called irritability.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. annoyance

   An annoyance is a feeling of being irritated or disturbed by something or someone that causes discomfort or displeasure. It could be triggered by a variety of factors including noise, behavior or any other unpleasant circumstance.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Annoyancenoun

   the act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy

2. Annoyancenoun

   that which annoys

3. Etymology: [OF. anoiance, anuiance.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Annoyance

   Annoyance is an unpleasant mental state that is characterized by such effects as irritation and distraction from one's conscious thinking. It can lead to emotions such as frustration and anger. The property of being easily annoyed is called irritability.

Matched Categories

1. • Anger
   • Negative Stimulus
   • Psychological State
   • Unpleasant Person

How to pronounce annoyance?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of annoyance in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of annoyance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of annoyance in a Sentence

1. Mark Twain:

   Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

2. Marc Polymeropoulos:

   [ Burns ] has demonstrated a personal commitment to providing health care for injured officers and is also allocating appropriate resources and personnel to finding out who is behind these attacks, it is a most welcome change from the previous leadership team, who at times disregarded the victims and treated this issue as an annoyance vice a true national security challenge.

3. Prashant Agarwal:

   In our day to day life we go through various activities which may involve high work pressure and high workload and as per us, we feel that this burden of work is resulting in causing frustration. Though we don't realize that it is not the workload which causes this frustration and annoyance but rather it is our negligence in the proper management of that work. If you avoid mismanagement of your work and duties you are likely to face frustration, annoyance, and grievance much lesser.

4. Ron DeSantis:

   Disney came out against something that was really just about protecting young kids, and making sure that students are able to go to school learning to read, write, add, subtract, and not having a teacher tell them that they can change their gender, and I think most parents agree with that. But you know, that was only a mild annoyance. I think that what we came to realize after that dust settled on that was you clearly had a movement within the corporation itself.

5. William Schaffner:

   That will raise the issue of annoyance and concern by the vaccinated people, they will say,' Wait a minute, Charlie is here and he's not wearing a mask and we know he's not vaccinated.' People know that sort of stuff about their coworkers.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=annoyance
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Annoyance
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=annoyance
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annoyance
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/annoyance
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=annoyance