nervousness

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nervousness

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Etymology

From nervous +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

nervousness (countable and uncountable, plural nervousnesses)

1. The state or quality of being nervous.
   • March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian‎:

     A part of the nervousness at Chelsea involves whether any more sponsors will follow the telecommunications and internet service provider Three in withdrawing support, at least temporarily.

Synonyms

• nervosity (much less common)

Translations

state or quality of being nervous

Arabic: تَوَتُّر (tawattur) Bulgarian: нервност (bg) f (nervnost) Czech: nervozita f Danish: nervøsitet c Dutch: zenuwachtigheid (nl) f Esperanto: nervozeco, maltrankvileco Finnish: hermostuneisuus (fi) French: nervosité (fr) f German: Nervosität (de) f, Unruhe (de) f Hungarian: idegesség (hu) Italian: nervosismo (it) m Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: agirnokî (ku) Norwegian: Bokmål: nervøsitet m Nynorsk: nervøsitet m Ottoman Turkish: سڭیر (siñir) Portuguese: nervosismo (pt) m, nervosia f Romanian: nervozitate (ro) f Russian: не́рвность (ru) f (nérvnostʹ), нерво́зность (ru) f (nervóznostʹ) Slovak: nervozita Spanish: nerviosidad (es) f, nerviosismo (es) m, intranquilidad (es) f Swedish: oro (sv), nervositet (sv) Turkish: gerginlik (tr), heyecan (tr) Ukrainian: нерво́зність f (nervóznistʹ), нерво́вість f (nervóvistʹ), нервува́ння n (nervuvánnja) Yoruba: ojora

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “nervousness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “nervousness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.