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  • noun The state of being edgy; anxiety

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable

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Examples

  • Maybe Spurrier's edginess is because beating the Vols is nothing new to him.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • Nor, it seems, will The Guardian’s John Harris, who lambasts it as “another contribution to the chain of comedies and dramas in which TV's much coveted edginess is simply a matter of wildly speculative scripts about politicians in office”.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Stephen Tall 2007

  • "edginess" - another blatantly sexist presentation came off without a hitch, this time at a Flash conference, and if anything, it was worse than the Rails/CouchDB presentation.

    Planet TW 2009

  • And what the book's back cover comment calls the "edginess" created by the frequent "raw typos" doesn't work at all.

    Narrative Strategies 2009

  • But after a few months, my wife's "edginess" was gone.

    SSRIs (Prozac): The Unidentified Marriage Killer 2009

  • A lot of the music tracks are looped, but this adds a kind of edginess to it, and the whirls and bleeps are just beautiful, especially when they whir and bleep to visual triggers.

    SciFi UK Review | Archive | May 2007

  • A lot of the music tracks are looped, but this adds a kind of edginess to it, and the whirls and bleeps are just beautiful, especially when they whir and bleep to visual triggers.

    Dirtside Atomic: Zero Budget Scifi | SciFi UK Review 2007

  • Plus, I also know to test out my humor slowly and raise the "edginess" of it slowly.

    Karen Salmansohn: Want to Increase Your Chances of Getting that Job, Raise, or Discount? 2008

  • Tolerance for "edginess" or even inconvenience varies widely among individuals.

    More Tourist go home 2006

  • And then you have underground writers whose "edginess" comes from the economic facts of their lives (refugees from the postindustrial Midwest in some cases) who have never received support or encouragement from any arts institution-- government, foundation, university or foundation (or your newspaper for that matter)-- who aren't trying to be "hip" and if anything are anti-hip, yet despite all obstacles-- real obstacles-- continue creating and performing their art regardless.

    Art and the city ... Frank Wilson 2007

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