restiveness
1. the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters • Syn: jitteriness, jumpiness, nervousness • Derivationally related forms: restive, nervous (for: nervousness), jumpy (for: jumpiness), jittery (for: jitteriness) • Hypernyms: anxiety 2. characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright • Syn: skittishness • Derivationally related forms: restive, skittish (for: skittishness) • Hypernyms: nervousness
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