Synonyms:
jitteriness, jumpiness, nervousness, restiveness
Meaning: the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters
Usage examples
As it was, he shivered, but more from nervousness than from the chill night air.
Then Mr. Caswall's efforts at staring became intensified, and poor Lilla's nervousness grew greater.
He could find no trace of anything, yet he felt a tense nervousness, as if trouble might be brooding.
"How do you know we're in the center of the earth?" asked Betsy, her voice trembling a little through nervousness.
I could see that Lilla began to suffer from nervousness, as on the first occasion; but she carried herself bravely.
Finally, we've picked up three of their messages in which they discuss, with some nervousness, the existence of our 'mysterious' ultrophone."
Finally, we've picked up three of their messages in which they discuss, with some nervousness, the existence of our 'mysterious' ultrophone."
Miss Stearne was a woman fifty years of age, tall and lean, with a deeply lined face and a tendency to nervousness that was increasing with her years.
For, despite Mrs. Henry Sherwood's bruskness and masculine appearance, Nan learned that there were certain matters over which her aunt showed extreme nervousness.
But the valley grew narrow and narrower still, And the evening got darker and colder, Till (merely from nervousness, not from goodwill) They marched along shoulder to shoulder.
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