MEANING
A nervous tendency to startle or react sharply to small disturbances.
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- persistent jumpiness
- signs of jumpiness
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Her jumpiness made each knock seem louder.
He noticed his jumpiness after the sleepless night.
The calm conversation reduced her jumpiness.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: jumpiness is normally a mass noun unless a particular instance is specified. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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