nervosity

[ nur-vos-i-tee ]

noun

1. the quality of being nervous; nervousness.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nervosity¹

First recorded in 1605–15 in an earlier sense “strength”; nerv(ous) + -osity ( def ); compare Latin nervōsitās “strength”

Example Sentences

But at the same time his nervosity caused him to produce sometimes effects a trifle hard, a trifle harsh.

From Project Gutenberg

So I think that this nervosity, if I may so express it, which clings to all public life in France, may be, in large part, a heritage from those terrible years of general overthrow, an inheritance that has been most carefully fostered in less glorious revolutions since then—ah, how many!

From Project Gutenberg

With this vigour of life, however, is most closely united that which I would call the nervosity of modern times, an unsteadiness, haste, insecurity of existence.

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The stomach was forgotten, the head became affected and the lessons were not given, and thus hunger and nervosity overcame the reason of this brave fellow.”

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Foolish dolls, without either heart or head, they had neither that almost diseased nervosity, nor that requirement for affection, nor that instinct of love which I discovered in my wife's nature, and which attracted me, at the same time that it terrified me.

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