EDGINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does edginess mean? 

• EDGINESS (noun)
  The noun EDGINESS has 1 sense:

1. feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable

  Familiarity information: EDGINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDGINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

disquietude; edginess; inquietude; uneasiness

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)