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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
trepidation
n : a feeling of alarm or dread
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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