Crossword clues for skittishness
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 hall.''
--Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Skit"tish*ly, adv. -- Skit"tish*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The property of being skittish.
WordNet
n. characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright [syn: restiveness]
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.