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What is the adjective for nervosity?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb nerve which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

nervous
  1. Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.
  2. Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
  3. Relating to or affecting the nerves.
  4. (obsolete) Of a piece of writing: forceful, powerful.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Being a claustrophobe, she would always get nervous in crowded areas.”
      “The big day had arrived and Tim could not help but feel nervous.”
      “A nervous energy filled the room as Jordan Belfort began to deliver his resignation speech.”
nervy
  1. (US) Having nerve; bold; brazen.
  2. (Britain) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.
  3. (archaic) Strong; sinewy.
  4. (technical) jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “After receiving the news of her upcoming performance, she felt nervy and started to doubt her abilities on stage.”
      “She is nervy enough to jump out of an airplane without hesitation.”
      “She showed her nervy side by fearlessly taking on the challenging task.”
nerveless
  1. Lacking nerve: fearful; cowardly.
  2. (biology) Lacking a nervous system.
  3. Devoid of nerves: calm, controlled, cool under pressure.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Still only 21, he is a nerveless and deadly finisher regardless of the magnitude of the occasion.”
      “Repression when successful induced a nerveless, sapless type.”
      “His nerveless cowardice had all at once become unbelievable to himself.”
nerved
  1. (botany) Having one or more principal veins, especially of a leaf.
  2. (in combination) Having nerves or disposition of a specified kind.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “I look up at the circles traced by a great swinging, lurching bucket and its nerved riders, and the playing track's identity comes to me: Rod Stewart's ‘Downtown Train’.”
nervomuscular
  1. (physiology) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles.
nervelike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of nerves.
  2. Synonyms:
nervish
nervate
  1. (botany) nerved
nervose
  1. (botany) nerved
  2. Examples:
    1. “For we see the vapour of quick-silver doth principally affect the brain and nervose parts.”
nerving
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