Jitteriness (Noun)
Meaning
The anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters.
Classification
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions.
Examples
- The new employee couldn't shake off the jitteriness she felt on her first day at the office, constantly rehearsing her presentation in her head.
- Before every public speaking engagement, the professor would feel a noticeable jitteriness in his stomach, which only subsided once he started talking.
- Drinking too much coffee seemed to increase her jitteriness, making her fidgety and irritable for the rest of the day.
- The anticipatory jitteriness he experienced before his first skydiving experience almost made him reconsider going through with it.
- Lena's jitteriness on her wedding day was only alleviated once she glimpsed her partner standing at the altar, smiling warmly at her.