agitability, agitation, all-overs, allergy, anaphylaxis, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, bite, bitingness, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bustle, cankerworm of care, care, chills of fear, churn, cold creeps, cold shivers, cold sweat, combustibility, commotion, concern, concernment, considerateness, conturbation, creeps, cuttingness, delicacy, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dread, drive, ebullition, edginess, effectiveness, embroilment, emotional instability, emotionalism, empathy, eruptiveness, excitability, excitableness, excitement, explosiveness, exquisiteness, fear, fear and trembling, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, fineness, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, force, forcefulness, foreboding, forebodingness, fume, fuss, goose bumps, gooseflesh, guts, heartquake, horripilation, hubbub, hurly-burly, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, identification, impressiveness, incisiveness, inflammability, inquietude, irascibility, irritability, jimjams, jitters, jumpiness, latent violence, maelstrom, malaise, misgiving, moil, mordancy, nerviness, nervosity, nervous strain, nervous tension, overanxiety, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, overtenderness, palpitation, passibility, perceptiveness, perceptivity, perturbability, perturbation, photophobia, pins and needles, poignancy, power, prickliness, pucker, punch, quaking, quiver of terror, responsiveness, restlessness, roil, rout, row, seethe, seething, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, shivers, sinew, sinewiness, skittishness, solicitude, soreness, startlishness, stew, stir, strain, strength, strong language, supersensitivity, suspense, sweat, swirl, sympathy, tact, tactfulness, tempestuousness, tenderness, tension, tetchiness, thin skin, thrill of fear, ticklishness, to-do, touchiness, trenchancy, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, uneasiness, unquietness, unrest, upset, vexation, vigor, vigorousness, violence, vitality, zeal

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nervousness

Fear

N fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence, apprehensiveness, fearfulness, solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving, feeze, mistrust, suspicion, qualm, hesitation, nervousness, restlessness, inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern, batophobia, heartquake, flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat, abject fear, mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency, despair, fright, affright, affrightment, boof alarm, dread, awe, terror, horror, dismay, consternation, panic, scare, stampede (of horses), intimidation, terrorism, reign of terror, bug bear, bugaboo, scarecrow, hobgoblin, nightmare, Gorgon, mormo, ogre, Hurlothrumbo, raw head and bloody bones, fee-faw-fum, bete noire, enfant terrible, alarmist, fearing, frightened, in fear, in a fright, haunted with the fear of, afeard, afraid, fearful, timid, timorous, nervous, diffident, coy, faint- hearted, tremulous, shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive, restless, fidgety, more frightened than hurt, aghast, awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic- stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-struck, frightened to death, white as a sheet, pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes, breathless, in hysterics, inspiring fear, alarming, formidable, redoubtable, perilous, portentous, fearful, dread, dreadful, fell, dire, direful, shocking, terrible, terrific, tremendous, horrid, horrible, horrific, ghastly, awful, awe-inspiring, revolting, Gorgonian, in terrorem, Int, angels and ministers of grace defend us!, ante tubam trepidat, horresco referens, one's heart failing one, obstupui steteruntque comae et vox faucibus haesit, a dagger of the mind, expertus metuit, fain would I climb but that I fear to fall, fear is the parent of cruelty, Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire, omnia tuta timens, our fears do make us traitors.

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