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The quality of being unstable and insecure
Answer for the clue "The quality of being unstable and insecure ", 9 letters:
shakiness
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Word definitions for shakiness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shakiness \Shak"i*ness\, n. Quality of being shaky.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being shaky.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe" [syn: shaking , trembling , quiver , quivering , vibration , palpitation ] the quality of being unstable and insecure; "the shakiness of the present regime" [syn: ricketiness ]
Usage examples of shakiness.
The words and the script are those of his father, yet there is a hint of shakiness about the characters that he does not recall, and that bothers him.
Perhaps because of that shakiness, he recalls the questions his father had given him, questions to which he has yet to find satisfactory answers.
He begins to read the precise handwriting that bears the hint of shakiness in each character he had seen but in the last few scrolls he had received from his father.
My stomach didn't seem to mind the taste of either, and some of the shakiness left my legs.
By then he'd eaten and drunk enough that most of the shakiness had subsided.