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twitching
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun twitching has 1 sense
- twitching(n = noun.state) twitch, vellication - a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition; Array is a kind of cramp, muscle spasm, spasm
has particulars: tic, blepharism, fibrillation, fasciculation
Derived forms verb twitch1, verb twitch2
THESAURUS
twitching
abstraction, abulia, agitation, alienation, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, apprehensiveness, attack of nerves, buck fever, case of nerves, catatonic stupor, compulsion, convulsive, dejection, depression, detachment, eclamptic, elation, emotionalism, euphoria, excessive irritability, fear, fidgetiness, fidgets, fidgety, fitful, folie du doute, formication, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, indifference, insensibility, itchiness, jerking, jerky, jiggety, jumpy, lethargy, mania, melancholia, mental distress, morbid excitability, nerves, nervosity, nervous stomach, nervousness, obsession, orgasmic, panic, panickiness, pathological indecisiveness, preoccupation, pruritus, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, saltatory, spasmodic, spastic, spell of nerves, stage fright, state of nerves, stupor, tic, trepidation, twitchety, twitchy, uneasiness, unresponsiveness, vellication, vellicative, withdrawal
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