Excitability(n.) The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.
Excitability(n.) The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.
Excitable(a.) Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
Excitant(a.) Tending to excite; exciting.
Excitant(n.) An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.
Excitate(v. t.) To excite.
Excitation(n.) The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
Excitation(n.) The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
Excitative(a.) Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory.
Excitator(n.) A kind of discarder.
Excite(v. t.) To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.
Excite(v. t.) To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
Excited(imp. & p. p.) of Excite
Exciteful(n.) Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players.
Excitement(n.) The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.
Excitement(n.) That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive.
Excitement(n.) A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues.
Exciter(n.) One who, or that which, excites.
Exciting(a.) Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story.
Exciting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excite
Excitive(a.) Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
Excitive(n.) That which excites; an excitant.
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