trepidancy

English

Etymology

From trepidant +‎ -cy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛpɪdənsi/

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Noun

trepidancy (uncountable)

1. (rare) Trembling caused by fear or nervous agitation.
   • 1840, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:

     In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence—an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy—an excessive nervous agitation.