Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
botheration is a noun meaning "the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
“washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer”
“a bit of a bother”
“he's not a friend, he's an infliction”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for botheration come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.