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JUMPINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jumpiness mean?
• JUMPINESS (noun)
The noun JUMPINESS has 1 sense:
1. the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters
Familiarity information: JUMPINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
jitteriness; jumpiness; nervousness; restiveness
Hypernyms ("jumpiness" is a kind of...):
anxiety (a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune)
Derivation:
jumpy (being in a tense state)
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