Trepidation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Trepidation \Trep`i*da"tion\, n. [F. tr['e]pidation, L.
     trepidatio, fr. trepidare to hurry with alarm, to tremble,
     from trepidus agitated, disturbed, alarmed; cf. trepit he
     turns, Gr. ? to turn, E. torture.]
     1. An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of
        paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking;


        quivering.
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     2. Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion;
        fright; as, the men were in great trepidation.
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     3. (Anc. Astron.) 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.
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     Syn: Tremor; agitation; disturbance; fear.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  trepidation
       n : a feeling of alarm or dread

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  124 Moby Thesaurus words for "trepidation":
     agitation, alarm, apprehensiveness, attack of nerves, bluster,
     bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, buck fever, bustle,
     case of nerves, chills of fear, churn, cold creeps, cold shivers,
     cold sweat, commotion, consternation, conturbation, creeps, didder,
     discomposure, dismay, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance,
     dithers, dread, ebullition, embroilment, excessive irritability,
     excitement, fear, fear and trembling, ferment, fermentation, fever,
     feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter,
     flutteration, foment, fright, fume, fuss, goose bumps, gooseflesh,
     heartquake, heaving, horripilation, horror, hubbub, hurly-burly,
     inquietude, jimjams, jitters, jumpiness, maelstrom, malaise, moil,
     morbid excitability, nerves, nerviness, nervosity, nervous stomach,
     nervousness, palpitation, panic, panickiness, panting,
     perturbation, pitapat, pitter-patter, quaking, quaver, quavering,
     quiver, quiver of terror, quivering, restlessness, roil, rout, row,
     seethe, seething, shakes, shaking, shiver, shivers, shudder,
     spell of nerves, stage fright, state of nerves, stir, sweat, swirl,
     terror, thrill of fear, throb, throbbing, tic, to-do, tremble,
     trembling, tremor, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity,
     turbulence, turmoil, twitching, twitter, unease, uneasiness,
     unrest, upset, vellication