annoyance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The feeling of being slightly angry or impatient.

   She sighed with annoyance when the bus was late again.

2. 2
   noun

   Something or someone that makes you slightly angry or impatient.

   Having to wait so long for the train is a real annoyance.

Inherited from Middle English anoyaunce (rare form of noyaunce), from Old French anuiance, anoiance, from the verb anuier (“to cause problems”), equivalent to annoy + -ance. Compare French ennui.

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