jumpiness

Questions about jumpiness

What does jumpiness mean?

jumpiness means "the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters".

How many syllables are in jumpiness?

jumpiness has 3 syllables and divides as jum-pi-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for jumpiness?

Close synonyms include jitteriness, nervousness, restiveness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jumpiness a common word?

jumpiness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.