EDGINESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable

Synonyms:

disquietude; edginess; inquietude; uneasiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("edginess" is a kind of...):

anxiety (a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "edginess"):

willies (feelings of uneasiness)

Derivation:

edgy (being in a tense state)