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trepidations

trepidations is the plural of trepidation.

Meaning of trepidation

Noun

trepidation (countable and uncountable, plural trepidations)

  1. Anxiety over the uncertain future or possible ill-occurrence.
    • I decided, with considerable trepidation, to let him drive my car without me.
  2. An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear.
    Synonyms:
    quaking, quivering
  3. (obsolete) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.

Questions about trepidations

What is trepidations the plural of?
Trepidations is the plural of trepidation.

Words near trepidations in the dictionary

  1. trepidate
  2. trepidated
  3. trepidates
  4. trepidating
  5. trepidation
  6. trepidations
  7. trepidatious
  8. trepidatiously
  9. trepidative
  10. trepidatory
  11. trepidities

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