Noun: annoyance
| Singular | annoyance |
| Plural | annoyances |
Sample Sentences
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Having to wait 45 minutes for the bus is a real annoyance, but it's the only way to get to work.
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feeling mild annoyance
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‘I’m not annoyed with you,’ Lizzie said, putting a hand on Dimple’s shoulder. ‘Well, I am. But you’re my sister. So the annoyance is nothing new.’ [2022, Candice Carty-Williams, People Person, Trapeze, page 273:]
Nouns inflected like annoyance
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
3. Proto-Italic *en
4. Proto-Italic *en-
5. Latin in-
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der.
7. Proto-Italic *odjom
8. Latin odium
9. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
11. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
12. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
13. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
14. Proto-Italic *-ājō
15. Proto-Italic *-āō
16. Latin -ō
17. Late Latin inodiāre
18. Old French anoier
19. Proto-Indo-European *-onts
20. Latin -ns
21. Latin -āns
22. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
23. Proto-Italic *-ijos
24. Proto-Italic *-ios
25. Old Latin -ios
26. Latin -ius
27. Latin -ia
28. Latin -āntia
29. Old French -ance
30. Old French anoiancebor.
31. Middle English anoyaunce
32. English annoyance
33. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
anoyaunce', Middle English Nouns '
anoyaunce', French Nouns '
ennui'.