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English
Etymology
From infuriate + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
infuriation (countable and uncountable, plural infuriations)
- (uncountable) Extreme anger.
- Synonyms: rage, fury
1849, Emma Jane, chapter 8, in Autobiography of Maude Bolingbroke, London: Wertheim and Macintosh, page 114:He had several long arguments with Annie, but to no purpose; and after his last interview with her, he returned to the saloon in a state little short of infuriation.
2008, Sloane Crosley, “You On a Stick”, in I Was Told There’d Be Cake, New York: Riverhead Books, page 178:Any compassion I felt for my middle school friend had evaporated, leaving little hard nuggets of infuriation.
- (countable) Something that causes extreme anger; an expression or instance of extreme anger.
- 1923, T. E. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett dated 16 December, 1923, in David Garnett (ed.), Letters of T. E. Lawrence, London: Jonathan Cape, 1938, p. 444,
- He likes the chapters in which I ramble round among the cobwebs of my own mind—those you wanted cut! Quaint, isn’t it? He also likes others, which you praised.
- That’s one infuriation of letters, of all artistic effort… their lack of an absolute.
1942, Wallace Stevens, “Credences of Summer”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Knopf, published 1971, page 372:[…] spring’s infuriations over and a long way
To the first autumnal inhalations,