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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Annoyance \An*noy"ance\, n. [OF. anoiance anuiance.]
1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed;
molestation; vexation; annoy.
A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers.
--Fuller.
For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged
place they would throw into it dead bodies.
--Wilkins.
2. That which annoys.
A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, Any
annoyance in that precious sense --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
annoyance
n 1: the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed [syn:
{irritation}, {vexation}]
2: anger produced by some annoying irritation [syn: {chafe}, {vexation}]
3: something or someone that causes trouble; a source of
unhappiness; "a bit of a bother" [syn: {nuisance}, {bother},
{botheration}, {pain}, {pain in the neck}, {pain in the
ass}]
4: the act of annoying someone [syn: {annoying}, {irritation},
{vexation}, {troubling}]
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