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A feeling of worry or anxiety

A fear of social interactions

The quality or state of being hesitant

Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic

Great forcefulness or intensity in one's feelings or expression

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Noun

A feeling of worry or anxiety

apprehensiveness

nervous tension

screaming abdabs

screaming habdabs

butterflies in the stomach

screaming meemies

discombobulation

Sturm und Drang

pins and needles

sense of foreboding

fear and trembling

second thoughts

nervous excitement

mistrustfulness

emotional strain

heart skipping a beat

nervous stomach

mid-life crisis

dissatisfaction

demoralization^US

demoralisation^UK

climbing the walls

fight-or-flight reaction

lack of enthusiasm

fear of carrying out an activity

disconsolateness

downheartedness

heaviness of heart

discontentedness

mental suffering

broken-heartedness

heavy-heartedness

emotional suffering

heavyheartedness

disillusionment

unconsolability

clinical depression

one's black dog

postnatal depression

endogenous depression

slough of despond

reactive depression

loss of confidence

lack of confidence

living day to day

heartbrokenness

fit of ill temper

fit of bad temper

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“He flushed with aggravation at his nervousness, and swore silently at his tendency to get tongue-tied in the presence of beautiful women.”

Noun

A fear of social interactions

self-consciousness

self-effacement

lack of confidence

unassertiveness

faintheartedness

lack of self-confidence

faint-heartedness

apprehensiveness

chickenheartedness

psychological block

mental blockage

unresponsiveness

uncommunicativeness

unpretentiousness

self-possession

self-containment

lack of pretension

self-discipline

unostentatiousness

down-to-earthness

self-government

stand-offishness

unobtrusiveness

keeping under control

unapproachability

undemonstrativeness

unforthcomingness

unwillingness to open up

keeping in check

strength of will

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Noun

The quality or state of being hesitant

shilly-shallying

humming and hawing

second thoughts

blowing hot and cold

mistrustfulness

distrustfulness

lack of confidence

lack of conviction

reconsideration

hemming and hawing

procrastination

inconclusiveness

lack of certainty

shillyshallying

questionableness

questionability

lack of resolution

sitting on the fence

half-heartedness

apprehensiveness

feeble-mindedness

lack of enthusiasm

twinge of doubt

twinge of conscience

pang of conscience

confusion dilemma

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Noun

Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic

loss of control

fit of agitation

mental distress

outburst of agitation

screaming abdabs

screaming habdabs

hustle and bustle

alarums and excursions

chain of events

toing and froing

comings and goings

discombobulation

wild excitement

hell broke loose

apprehensiveness

nervous excitement

fuss and bother

screaming meemies

fuss and feathers

flurry of activity

breach of the peace

Sturm und Drang

tempest in a teapot

storm in a teacup

much ado about nothing

monkey business

state of unrest

state of anxiety

state of agitation

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Noun

Great forcefulness or intensity in one's feelings or expression

wholeheartedness

hot-bloodedness

strong interest

intensity of feeling

burning passion

boundless enthusiasm

intestinal fortitude

fire in the belly

domineeringness

full head of steam

self-assuredness

stick-to-itiveness

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