Dictionary

infuriation en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English infuriate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English infuriation From infuriate + -ion.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Extreme anger.
   • Any compassion I felt for my middle school friend had evaporated, leaving little hard nuggets of infuriation. 2008, Sloane Crosley, “You On a Stick”, in I Was Told There’d Be Cake, New York: Riverhead Books, page 178:
   • 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. 1849, Emma Jane, chapter 8, in Autobiography of Maude Bolingbroke, London: Wertheim and Macintosh, page 114:
2. (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.
   • […] spring’s infuriations over and a long way To the first autumnal inhalations, 1942, Wallace Stevens, “Credences of Summer”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Knopf, published 1971, page 372:

Forms

Synonyms

fury · rage