Thesaurus / nervousness
FEEDBACKHow to use nervousness in a sentence
Time and again people have really been nervous about what could happen.
RBG, MINORITY RULE, AND OUR LOOMING LEGITIMACY CRISISEZRA KLEINSEPTEMBER 25, 2020VOXPalmer Luckey’s young defense company has been selected by the Air Force for work on a cutting-edge, multibillion-dollar nervous system for war.
ANDURIL AMONG COMPANIES TAPPED TO BUILD THE AIR FORCE’S ‘INTERNET OF THINGS’ FOR WARTAYLOR HATMAKERSEPTEMBER 24, 2020TECHCRUNCHThis is normal and critical to the development of organ systems in the fetus, like the lungs, liver and central nervous system.
PREGNANCY DURING A PANDEMIC: THE STRESS OF COVID-19 ON PREGNANT WOMEN AND NEW MOTHERS IS SHOWINGLGBTQ-EDITORSEPTEMBER 23, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSHe keeps a nervous eye on the boxes of candy and gum, knowing that he’ll have to throw them out if they expire before someone buys them.
THE BIG CORPORATE RESCUE AND THE AMERICA THAT’S TOO SMALL TO SAVEBY LYDIA DEPILLIS, JUSTIN ELLIOTT AND PAUL KIELSEPTEMBER 12, 2020PROPUBLICAThe idea that the mathematics for an optimal blind search strategy might be embedded in the very structure of a nervous system feels like a question that needs to be answered.
RANDOM SEARCH WIRED INTO ANIMALS MAY HELP THEM HUNTLIAM DREWJUNE 11, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE"No; his coming has taken me by surprise," replied Hartledon, with a nervousness he could not wholly conceal.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODIn sheer nervousness, Hilda also dropped to her knees on the hearthrug, and began to worry the fire with the poker.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTOnce on my legs I found that nervousness left me, words came freely and I even enjoyed the novel experience.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWAfter a few days of excessive nervousness the most timorous among the women were heard to complain of the monotony of existence!
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYI hope he will succeed next time, but his nervousness renders it still more doubtful.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGEWORDS RELATED TO NERVOUSNESS
- agitation
- anger
- annoyance
- ants in pants
- anxiety
- avidity
- disquietude
- eagerness
- edginess
- excitement
- expectancy
- fretfulness
- haste
- hastiness
- heat
- impetuosity
- intolerance
- irritability
- irritableness
- nervousness
- quick temper
- rashness
- restiveness
- restlessness
- shortness
- snappiness
- suspense
- uneasiness
- vehemence
- violence
- activity
- agitation
- ailment
- ants
- antsiness
- anxiety
- bustle
- disquiet
- disquietude
- disturbance
- edginess
- excitability
- ferment
- fitfulness
- fretfulness
- hurry
- inconstancy
- insomnia
- instability
- jitters
- jumpiness
- movement
- nervousness
- restiveness
- transience
- turbulence
- turmoil
- unease
- uneasiness
- unrest
- unsettledness
- worriedness
- acuteness
- anxiety
- ardor
- concentration
- deepness
- depth
- earnestness
- emotion
- emphasis
- energy
- excess
- excitement
- extreme
- extremity
- fanaticism
- ferment
- ferociousness
- ferocity
- fervency
- fervor
- fierceness
- fire
- force
- forcefulness
- fury
- high pitch
- intenseness
- keenness
- magnitude
- might
- nervousness
- potency
- power
- severity
- sharpness
- strain
- strength
- tenseness
- tension
- vehemence
- vigor
- violence
- volume
- weightiness
- wildness
- activity
- agitation
- ailment
- ants
- antsiness
- anxiety
- bustle
- disquiet
- disquietude
- disturbance
- edginess
- excitability
- ferment
- fitfulness
- fretfulness
- hurry
- inconstancy
- inquietude
- insomnia
- instability
- jitters
- jumpiness
- movement
- nervousness
- transience
- turbulence
- turmoil
- unease
- uneasiness
- unrest
- unsettledness
- worriedness
- activity
- agitation
- ailment
- ants
- antsiness
- anxiety
- bustle
- disquiet
- disquietude
- disturbance
- edginess
- excitability
- ferment
- fitfulness
- fretfulness
- hurry
- inconstancy
- inquietude
- insomnia
- instability
- jitters
- jumpiness
- movement
- nervousness
- restiveness
- transience
- turbulence
- turmoil
- uneasiness
- unrest
- unsettledness
- worriedness
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