Definition of "skittishness" []

• The property of being skittish. (noun)

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• "It's unclear whether Bishop has a longstanding history of not JUST SAYING IT: YOU WILL FAIL, or if his skittishness is a recent phenomenon having something to do with the bank down the road"
• "It keeps coming back there and you wonder what is going on because nothing very damaging has happened in the US landscape to warrant this kind of skittishness, but the mother of all market appears quite nervous."
• "But some of the latest skittishness has to do with Spain itself."