nervousness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English nervous

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English nervousness

From nervous + -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

nervousness (countable and uncountable, plural nervousnesses)

1. The state or quality of being nervous.
   • 2022 March 11, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 April 2022:

     A part of the nervousness at Chelsea involves whether any more sponsors will follow the telecommunications and internet service provider Three in withdrawing support, at least temporarily.

Synonyms

• nervosity (much less common)

Translations

state or quality of being nervous

• Arabic: تَوَتُّر (tawattur)
• Bulgarian: нервност (bg) f (nervnost)
• Czech: nervozita f
• Danish: nervøsitet c
• Dutch: zenuwachtigheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: nervozeco, maltrankvileco
• Finnish: hermostuneisuus (fi)
• French: nervosité (fr) f
• German: Nervosität (de) f, Unruhe (de) f
• Hungarian: idegesség (hu)
• Italian: nervosismo (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: agirnokî (ku)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nervøsitet m

  Nynorsk: nervøsitet m

• Portuguese: nervosismo (pt) m, nervosia f
• Romanian: nervozitate (ro) f
• Russian: не́рвность (ru) f (nérvnostʹ), нерво́зность (ru) f (nervóznostʹ)
• Slovak: nervozita
• Spanish: nerviosidad (es) f, nerviosismo (es) m, intranquilidad (es) f
• Swedish: oro (sv), nervositet (sv)
• Turkish: gerginlik (tr), heyecan (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: سڭیر (siñir)

• Ukrainian: нерво́зність f (nervóznistʹ), нерво́вість f (nervóvistʹ), нервува́ння n (nervuvánnja)
• Yoruba: ojora

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “nervousness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “nervousness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.