nervousness

Other forms of nervousness

plural

nervousnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nervousness

What does nervousness mean?

nervousness means "the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nervousness?

nervousness has 3 syllables: ner-vou-sness. The stress falls on "ner". In IPA it is /ˈnɝvəsnəs/.

What is another word for nervousness?

Close synonyms include jitteriness, jumpiness, restiveness, nerves. 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 nervousness a common word?

nervousness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.