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Meaning of "annoyance" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ANNOYANCE

annoyance  [əˈnɔɪəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANNOYANCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Annoyance is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANNOYANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

annoyance

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.

Definition of annoyance in the English dictionary

The first definition of annoyance in the dictionary is the feeling of being annoyed. Other definition of annoyance is the act of annoying. Annoyance is also a person or thing that annoys.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANNOYANCE


alliance
əˈlaɪəns
ambiance
ˈæmbɪəns
ambience
ˈæmbɪəns
appliance
əˈplaɪəns
audience
ˈɔːdɪəns
chatoyance
ʃəˈtɔɪəns
clairvoyance
klɛəˈvɔɪəns
compliance
kəmˈplaɪəns
convenience
kənˈviːnɪəns
defiance
dɪˈfaɪəns
experience
ɪkˈspɪərɪəns
flamboyance
flæmˈbɔɪəns
joyance
ˈdʒɔɪəns
neuroscience
ˈnjʊərəʊˌsaɪəns
noyance
ˈnɔɪəns
reliance
rɪˈlaɪəns
resilience
rɪˈzɪlɪəns
science
ˈsaɪəns
upbuoyance
ˈʌpˌbɔɪəns
variance
ˈvɛərɪəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANNOYANCE

anno Domini
anno regni
anno urbis conditae
annona
annotatable
annotate
annotated
annotation
annotative
annotator
announce
announcement
announcer
annoy
annoyed
annoyer
annoying
annoyingly
annual
annual general meeting

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANNOYANCE

abeyance
advance
appearance
assistance
balance
chance
conveyance
dance
dispurveyance
distance
enhance
finance
France
imbalance
importance
insurance
maintenance
purveyance
reconveyance
surveyance

Synonyms and antonyms of annoyance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ANNOYANCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «annoyance» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of annoyance

Translation of «annoyance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANNOYANCE

Find out the translation of annoyance to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of annoyance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «annoyance» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

厌烦
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

enfado
570 millions of speakers

English

annoyance
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

झुंझलाहट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الانزعاج
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

раздражение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

aborrecimento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিরক্তি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

contrariété
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kegusaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ärger
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

いらだち
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

짜증
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gangguan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ít phiền toái
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எரிச்சலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चीड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sıkıntı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

irritazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kłopot
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

роздратування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

supărare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ενόχληση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ergernis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

irritation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ergrelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of annoyance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANNOYANCE»

The term «annoyance» is quite widely used and occupies the 33.030 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANNOYANCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «annoyance» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «annoyance» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about annoyance

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8 QUOTES WITH «ANNOYANCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word annoyance.
1
Isaac Asimov
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
2
Bruno Bettelheim
Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.
3
Rob Manuel
Trolling taps into people's desire to poke fun, make trouble and cause annoyance.
4
Demi Moore
I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.
5
Michelle Pfeiffer
I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.
6
Jean Piaget
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.
7
Yuvraj Singh
When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.
8
Scott Westerfeld
I have no problem with commenters stating strong opinions, except for my usual annoyance with people who don't agree with me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANNOYANCE»

Discover the use of annoyance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to annoyance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Annoyance: A Comedy
In Sam Bobrick's classic comedy of sanity (or insanity!), a very annoying man goes to see a woman therapist in the hopes that she will help him become less annoying.
Sam Bobrick, 2005
2
The Annoyance Bureau
While spending his Christmas vacation in New York City with his father and new stepfamily, twelve-year Lucas meets a rebellious agent of the secret Annoyance Bureau, which exists to control or eliminate all sources of annoyance in the ...
Lucy Frank, 2002
3
Effect of noise spectra and a listening task upon passenger ...
The noise descriptor most effective for estimating annoyance response under conditions of reverie and listening situations is shown to be the A-weighted sound pressure level. (Author).
Sherman A. Clevenson, Jack D. Leatherwood, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch, 1979
4
Development of a noise annoyance sensitivity scale
A predictive model of noise annoyance involving 20 test items was developed using multiple regression techniques, and an item weighting scheme was evaluated. Cf. Prelim. p. [i]
Howard Louis Bregman, Richard G. Pearson, North Carolina State University, 1972
5
Cumulative annoyance due to multiple aircraft flyovers with ...
The subjects were asked to judge their annoyance in the simulated living room environment of the laboratory and also to assess how annoyed they would be if they heard the noise in their home during the day, evening, and night periods.
Kevin P. Shepherd, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch, Langley Research Center, 1981
6
Annoyance judgements of aircraft with and without ...
A series of subjective response laboratory tests were conducted to determine the effectiveness of reducing aircraft noise by treating the aircraft engine nacelles with acoustically absorbent material.
Paul N. Borsky, Skipton Leonard, Columbia University, 1973
7
Emotions in Social Psychology: Essential Readings
How Does Anger Differ from Annoyance? Straw person. According to most psychological analyses, the major difference between anger and annoyance is one of degree. Anger is more intense than annoyance; beyond that, the question has ...
W. Gerrod Parrott, 2001
8
Urban Sound Environment
Preis (1996) proposed a multicomponent approach where annoyance is the result of the linear combination of three terms: (1) annoying loudness – the time- averaged difference between the loudness of the noise and that of background noise; ...
Jian Kang, 2006
9
A Proposed Metric for Assessing the Potential of Community ...
Since there are currently no universally accepted metrics or descriptors for Iow frequency community annoyance, we performed a Iimited program using volunteers to see if we could identify a method suitable for wind turbine noise ...
Neil Davis Kelley, Solar Energy Research Institute, 1987
10
Auditory and Visual Sensations
This study examines effects of spatial factors extracted from the IACF on annoyance of noise stimuliin a laboratory. In the first experiment, using paired comparison tests the subjects judged their annoyance while changing fluctuations in the ...
Yoichi Ando, Peter Cariani, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANNOYANCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term annoyance is used in the context of the following news items.
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Accessory Triples Your Laptop Screen for the Ultimate in Bus/Train …
Accessory Triples Your Laptop Screen for the Ultimate in Bus/Train Annoyance. By Gary Cutlack on 06 Jul 2015 at 3:30AM 06 Jul 2015. Ever dreamed about ... «Gizmodo UK, Jul 15»
2
Matt Harvey pitches through another bloody nose
It's not a major issue, but it's probably a major annoyance. Speaking of which, the Mets have several major issues that are also annoying. «Yahoo Sports, Jul 15»
3
Has Lufthansa gone mad? Penalising customers is the wrong way
... or any of the gazillion other hotels that offer free wifi, because it's an added annoyance to my stay that I have to faff around with the hotspot. «Tnooz, Jul 15»
4
Cup has no room for prima donnas
There's an annoyance factor. Also in today's game, where there is a lot more money available to win on the circuit, for a lot of players in a lot of ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
5
Have a noisy neighbour who wrecks your head? Here's what you …
However, Flac said this can become necessary once “noise goes beyond being an annoyance and the neighbour's behaviour causes fear, ... «thejournal.ie, Jul 15»
6
Why Did Seattle's Former Police Chief Say Kurt Cobain's Suicide …
Another reason Grant offers for the Seattle PD's alleged desire to wash its hands of the case is simple annoyance. He argues that conspiracy ... «VICE, Jul 15»
7
OnePlus One Users Can Now Install CyanogenMod 12.1 with …
... process can be a very problematic situation, and while it's far from an unrecoverable one, it's still an annoyance that can be easily avoided. «Master Herald, Jul 15»
8
Nuisance call complaints at a record high
As well as the annoyance, calls can result in vulnerable people being scammed. In news earlier this week, Citizens Advice said that it saw ... «Which?, Jul 15»
9
Free Hotel Wi-Fi Is Increasingly on Travelers' Must-Have List
Data backs up travelers' anecdotes of annoyance at paying for Wi-Fi. In the J.D. Power 2014 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
10
Transportation Expert: Let's Raise The Speed Limits
We've all felt the frustration of being behind slow drivers and annoyance at aggressive drivers weaving through traffic. Both of these situations ... «Jalopnik, Jul 15»

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