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Definition of Nervosity
1. n. Nervousness.
Definition of Nervosity
1. Noun. The state of being nervous; nervousness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nervosity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nervosity
Literary usage of Nervosity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Israel Among the Nations: A Study of the Jews and Antisemitism by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, Frances Hellman (1895)
"... Maladies and Infirmities Ascribed to the Jews—Disproportionate Development of
their Nervous System—-Causes and Effects of their nervosity—Frequent Lack ..."
2. Passion and Criminality in France: A Legal and Literary Study by Louis Joseph Cyrille Proal (1901)
"... Novelist is solely and entirely the result of a nervous organization, it is
an undoubted fact that nervosity plays a great part with men of imagination. ..."
3. Passion and Criminality: A Legal and Literary Study by Louis Proal, Alfred Richard Allinson (1905)
"... Novelist is solely and entirely the result of a nervous organization, it is
an undoubted fact that nervosity plays a great part with men of imagination. ..."
4. A Text-book of the War for Americans by James William White (1915)
"The German propagandists should pause to reflect whether their exertions are not
producing among all neutrals a nervosity something more than momentaneous. ..."
5. A Textbook of Nervous Diseases for Students and Practicing Physicians: In by Robert Bing, Charles Lewis Allen (1921)
"By comparison .of the whole number of students with the number of those who sought
professional advice on account of nervosity, he found the figures of 30 ..."
6. An Alphabetical List of English Words Occurring in the Literature of the ...by Philological Society (Great Britain), Philological Society (Great Britain by Philological Society (Great Britain), Philological Society (Great Britain (1861)
"2 nervosity, sb. W. 1821 nervous, adj. of the nerves 3 1541 nervous, adj. full of
nerves 2 1601 nervous, adj. sinewy 2, 3 1601 nervous, adj. stringy 3 1821 ..."
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