irritésirritées

Irritésirritées is a neologism used in French-language discourse to describe a self-reinforcing state of irritation in which an initial annoyance triggers a cascade of additional irritations, amplifying overall discomfort. The term is typically employed in informal analysis of social interactions, online discussions, or everyday experiences where small irritants compound over time.

Linguistically, irritésirritées is a portmanteau-like construction that combines forms of irrité (irritated) and irritées (irritations or irritated ones) to emphasize repetition and feedback in the irritation cycle. It is not part of standard vocabulary and is mostly encountered in discussions that aim to capture cyclical or escalating feelings rather than to define a medical condition.

In practice, the concept is used metaphorically rather than clinically. In psychology or communication studies, irritésirritées can describe how negative emotions spread or intensify through social feedback, cognitive biases, and emotional contagion. In dermatology-inspired metaphor, it can illustrate the itch-scratch dynamic, where scratching worsens skin irritation and leads to further scratching. In digital environments, it helps explain why a single provocative remark may provoke a stream of increasingly charged responses, producing a localized loop of irritation.

Because irritésirritées remains informal and emergent, its precise meaning can vary by context. It is often cited as a descriptive term rather than a formal theory, used to identify and discuss cycles of annoyance rather than to prescribe interventions. See also: feedback loop, cognitive bias, contagion of emotion, itch-scratch cycle.