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“excitability” in Latin
immānitāsimmensity, vastness, excess; monstrousness, enormity, fierceness, cruelty, barbarism, savageness, inhumanity, frightfulnquatiōto shake, agitate, batter, shatter, demolish, overthrow, rend; to wield, brandish; to move, touch, excite, affect
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
excitability
*proclivitas ad irascendum, ad accipiendam offensionem, etc.: mollis ad accipiendam offensionem animus (Cic., of readiness to take offence): animus alicujus irritabilis (☞ irritabilitas very late; Apul.): animi mobilitas (that is unsteady from its natural excitability; Sall.): mollitudo animi (opposed to indolentia, stupor, immanitas, Cic., Tusc., 6, 12): *tener quidam et mollis animus (after est natura fere in animis tenerum quiddam et molle, quod aegritudine, quasi tempestate, quatiatur; Cic., Tusc., 3, 6, 12). Or by circumlocution. A person of great excitability, qui facile commovetur, irritatur, etc.: a person of considerable excitability, commotior animo (Tac.).
Excitability of the nerves, etc., *incitabilitas (as technical term).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for excitability?
- The usual Latin words for “excitability” are immānitās, quatiō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.