Definition of "nervosity" [ner•vos•i•ty]

• The quality or state of being nervous. (noun)

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• "Thereby she gets into increasing difficulties and a certain nervosity, because she simply cannot cope with everything she would and should like to perform, and then loses stamina."
• "Almost all the faces about these crowded tables – young or old, plain or handsome, distinguished or average – have the same look of quiet authority: it is as though all "nervosity," fussiness, little personal oddities, meannesses and vulgarities, had been burnt away in a great flame of self-dedication."
• "Almost all the faces about these crowded tables -- young or old, plain or handsome, distinguished or average -- have the same look of quiet authority: it is as though all "nervosity," fussiness, little personal oddities, meannesses and vulgarities, had been burnt away in a great flame of self-dedication."