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Characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright
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skittishness
Word definitions for skittishness in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright [syn: restiveness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skittish \Skit"tish\, a. [See Skit , v. t.] Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. ``A restiff, skittish jade.'' --L'Estrange. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. ``Skittish Fortune's ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being skittish.
Usage examples of skittishness.
Key stocks were being dumped across the board as investor uncertainty over the future of the American economy fueled a skittishness that had not completely abated since Dark Friday.
Zap 210, on her part, treated Reith with suspicion, as if begrudging even the intimacy of conversation: a skittishness and prim reserve peculiar in a person who, to the best of his knowledge, had not even a distorted understanding of ordinary sexual processes.
Two more of them were getting acquainted with two magnificent riding horses, who seemed to be getting over their initial skittishness.