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trepidancy

UK/ˈtɹɛpɪdənsi/

trepidancy noun: trembling caused by fear or nervous agitation.

Noun

trepidancy (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Trembling caused by fear or nervous agitation.
    • In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence—an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy—an excessive nervous agitation.1840, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

Origin of trepidancy

From trepidant + -cy.

Questions about trepidancy

What does trepidancy mean?
Trepidancy means trembling caused by fear or nervous agitation.
What part of speech is trepidancy?
Trepidancy is a noun.
How do you pronounce trepidancy?
Trepidancy is pronounced /ˈtɹɛpɪdənsi/ (UK).

Words near trepidancy in the dictionary

  1. trephone
  2. trephones
  3. trepibutone
  4. trepid
  5. trepidacious
  6. trepidancy
  7. trepidant
  8. trepidate
  9. trepidated
  10. trepidates
  11. trepidating

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