Word Meanings - NERVOUSNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

State or quality of being nervous.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NERVOUSNESS)

• affectibility
• Sensibility
• sensitiveness
• susceptibility
• impressibility
• excitability
• irritability
• nervousness

Related words: (words related to NERVOUSNESS)

• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• EXCITABILITY
  The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited;
• IRRITABILITY
  A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under
• SENSIBILITY
  The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive. 2. The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful;
• IMPRESSIBILITY
  The quality of being impressible; susceptibility.
• NERVOUSNESS
  State or quality of being nervous.
• SUSCEPTIBILITY
  1. The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected. 2. Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility;
• INSENSIBILITY
  1. The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates. 2. Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity. Syn.
• INEXCITABILITY
  The quality of being inexcitable; insusceptibility to excitement.
• HYPERSENSIBILITY
  See HYPERæSTHESIA
• INSUSCEPTIBILITY
  Want of susceptibility, or of capacity to feel or perceive.