excitability

[ ik-sahy-tuh-bil-i-tee ]

noun

1. the quality of being excitable.
2. Physiology. irritability.

Other Words From

• unex·cita·bili·ty noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of excitability¹

First recorded in 1780–90; excitable + -ity

Example Sentences

If these mice were engineered to overexpress MEF2 at a young age, they displayed neither the excessive neuronal excitability nor the cognitive impairments that the protein usually produces later in life.

From MIT Technology Review

By inserting genes into the brain to increase or decrease neuron excitability, the researchers learned that the most excited neurons in the area will become part of the engram.

From MIT Technology Review

The reflex excitability is lowered and the sensibility diminished.

From Project Gutenberg

It had been a brilliant brain, and that very excitability that had lent its brilliance was fatal to it now.

From Project Gutenberg

Here we may see the universal transition from sensibility to acute excitability which is a source of many quarrels.

From Project Gutenberg

The climate of Florida is also of peculiar advantage in all diseases attended by nervous excitability.

From Project Gutenberg

Whether they recognize each other by touch or by their mutual excitability I do not know.

From Project Gutenberg

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