Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or state of being nervous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being nervous; nervousness.
- noun In botany, the state of being nerved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Nervousness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
nervous ;nervousness .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Thereby she gets into increasing difficulties and a certain nervosity, because she simply cannot cope with everything she would and should like to perform, and then loses stamina.
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Almost all the faces about these crowded tables – young or old, plain or handsome, distinguished or average – have the same look of quiet authority: it is as though all "nervosity," fussiness, little personal oddities, meannesses and vulgarities, had been burnt away in a great flame of self-dedication.
Fighting France 1915
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Almost all the faces about these crowded tables -- young or old, plain or handsome, distinguished or average -- have the same look of quiet authority: it is as though all "nervosity," fussiness, little personal oddities, meannesses and vulgarities, had been burnt away in a great flame of self-dedication.
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Edith Wharton 1899
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The situation of the Middle East increased the nervosity of the government on this subject.
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The situation of the Middle East increased the nervosity of the government on this subject.
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But there was a lot of nervosity (ph) and emotion, especially coming from Yoko and Olivia.
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But there was a lot of nervosity (ph) and emotion, especially coming from Yoko and Olivia.
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But there was a lot of nervosity (ph) and emotion, especially coming from Yoko and Olivia.
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But there was a lot of nervosity (ph) and emotion, especially coming from Yoko and Olivia.
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But there was a lot of nervosity (ph) and emotion, especially coming from Yoko and Olivia.
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