"nervousness" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-nervousness.wav Forms: nervousnesses [plural]
Etymology: From nervous + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|nervous|ness}} nervous + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} nervousness (countable and uncountable, plural nervousnesses)
  1. The state or quality of being nervous. Wikipedia link: nervousness Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Emotions Synonyms: nervosity (english: much less common) Translations (state or quality of being nervous): تَوَتُّر (tawattur) (Arabic), нервност (nervnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), nervozita [feminine] (Czech), nervøsitet [common-gender] (Danish), zenuwachtigheid [feminine] (Dutch), nervozeco (Esperanto), maltrankvileco (Esperanto), hermostuneisuus (Finnish), nervosité [feminine] (French), Nervosität [feminine] (German), Unruhe [feminine] (German), idegesség (Hungarian), nervosismo [masculine] (Italian), agirnokî (Northern Kurdish), nervøsitet [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), nervøsitet [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), سڭیر (siñir) (Ottoman Turkish), nervosismo [masculine] (Portuguese), nervosia [feminine] (Portuguese), nervozitate [feminine] (Romanian), не́рвность (nérvnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), нерво́зность (nervóznostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), nervozita (Slovak), nerviosidad [feminine] (Spanish), nerviosismo [masculine] (Spanish), intranquilidad [feminine] (Spanish), oro (Swedish), nervositet (Swedish), gerginlik (Turkish), heyecan (Turkish), нерво́зність (nervóznistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), нерво́вість (nervóvistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), нервува́ння (nervuvánnja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), ojora (Yoruba)

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      "sense": "state or quality of being nervous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "intranquilidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "state or quality of being nervous",
      "word": "oro"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "state or quality of being nervous",
      "word": "nervositet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "state or quality of being nervous",
      "word": "gerginlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "state or quality of being nervous",
      "word": "heyecan"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nervóznistʹ",
      "sense": "state or quality of being nervous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "нерво́зність"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nervóvistʹ",
      "sense": "state or quality of being nervous",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "нерво́вість"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nervuvánnja",
      "sense": "state or quality of being nervous",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "нервува́ння"
    },
    {
      "code": "yo",
      "lang": "Yoruba",
      "sense": "state or quality of being nervous",
      "word": "ojora"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nervousness"
}

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