nervousness
IPA: nˈɝvʌsnʌs
noun
- The state or quality of being nervous.
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Examples of "nervousness" in Sentences
- My nervousness is centred on what one particular person will think of it.
- "Our nervousness is gone now," said Juan Sanchez, whose son Jimmy is in the mine.
- Because we know how well he's done and how well he'll do, his nervousness is amusing and disarming.
- Still, riding on the back of strong underlying fundamentals, India will retain its status as a favoured investment destination among emerging markets, notwithstanding short-term nervousness that roiled the Indian capital markets earlier this year.
- It was not fear, but what I call nervousness, -- unreasoning, but irresistible; as when, for instance, one looking at the sun going down says, "I will count fifty before it disappears"; and as he goes on and it becomes doubtful whether he will reach the number, he gets strangely flurried, and his imagination pictures life and death and heaven and hell as the issues depending on the completion or non-completion of the fifty he is counting.
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