亚洲网紅露点

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nervosity

[ nur-vos-i-tee ]

noun

  1. the quality of being nervous; nervousness.


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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of nervosity1

First recorded in 1605鈥15 in an earlier sense 鈥渟迟谤别苍驳迟丑鈥; nerv(ous) + -osity ( def ); compare Latin 苍别谤惫艒蝉颈迟腻蝉 鈥渟迟谤别苍驳迟丑鈥
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Example Sentences

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But at the same time his nervosity caused him to produce sometimes effects a trifle hard, a trifle harsh.

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So I think that this nervosity, if I may so express it, which clings to all public life in France, may be, in large part, a heritage from those terrible years of general overthrow, an inheritance that has been most carefully fostered in less glorious revolutions since then鈥攁h, how many!

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With this vigour of life, however, is most closely united that which I would call the nervosity of modern times, an unsteadiness, haste, insecurity of existence.

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The stomach was forgotten, the head became affected and the lessons were not given, and thus hunger and nervosity overcame the reason of this brave fellow.鈥

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Foolish dolls, without either heart or head, they had neither that almost diseased nervosity, nor that requirement for affection, nor that instinct of love which I discovered in my wife's nature, and which attracted me, at the same time that it terrified me.

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