skittishness

  • 61volatility — Synonyms and related words: airiness, animation, ascent, brainlessness, bubbliness, buoyancy, caducity, changeability, changeableness, coquettishness, corruptibility, daintiness, death, delicacy, downiness, empty headedness, ephemerality,… …

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  • 62zest — Synonyms and related words: activity, alacrity, amusement, animal pleasure, animal spirits, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, ardor, avidity, avidness, bite, bliss, bodily pleasure, breathless impatience, brio, briskness, capersomeness,… …

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  • 63zip — Synonyms and related words: aggressiveness, animal spirits, animation, assibilate, assibilation, ball the jack, bang, barrel, bite, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, briskness, brush, bustle, buzz, capersomeness, clip, coltishness, cut… …

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  • 64all overs — agitation; nervousness; jumpiness, skittishness; state of being excited …

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  • 65nervousness — nerv·ous·ness || nÉœrvÉ™snɪs / nɜːv n. jumpiness, skittishness; stressfulness, tenseness; state of being excited …

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  • 66skittish — adjective (of a horse) nervous; inclined to shy. ↘lively and unpredictable; playful. Derivatives skittishly adverb skittishness noun Origin ME: perh. from the rare verb skit (see skit) …

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  • 67timidity — n. 1. Timorousness, fearfulness, skittishness, shyness, cowardice, pusillanimity, want of courage, timidness. 2. Diffidence, bashfulness, coyness, sheepishness, shamefacedness …

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  • 68skittish — adjective 1 a horse or other animal that is skittish easily gets excited or frightened 2 a person who is skittish is not very serious, and their feelings, behaviour, and opinions keep changing skittishly adverb skittishness noun (U) …

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  • 69frivolity — noun everyone needs a little frivolity now and again Syn: lightheartedness, levity, joking, jocularity, gaiety, fun, frivolousness, silliness, foolishness, flightiness, skittishness; superficiality, shallowness, flippancy, vacuity, empty… …

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  • 70fidget — v 1. twiddle, twiddle one s thumbs, jitter, move by fits and starts, Scot. fidge, twitch, jerk; play around, fool around; wiggle, wigwag, squirm, itch, scrabble, Sl. have ants in one s pants. 2. agitate, irritate, annoy, bother; fluster, ruffle,… …

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