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EDGINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
Synonyms:
disquietude; edginess; inquietude; uneasiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("edginess" is a kind of...):
anxiety (a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "edginess"):
willies (feelings of uneasiness)
Derivation:
edgy (being in a tense state)
