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Nervousness

State or quality of being nervous.

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Anxiety 76% connected

Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

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Disposition 76% connected

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

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Temperament 76% connected

Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.

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Queasiness 76% connected

The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness.

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Strain 76% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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Uneasiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being uneasy; restlessness; disquietude; anxiety.

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Flighty 74% connected

Fleeting; swift; transient.

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Flighty 74% connected

Fleeting; swift; transient.

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Nervous 74% connected

possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.

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Nervous 74% connected

possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.

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Aboulia noun · 86% connection

a loss of will power

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Abulia noun · 86% connection

a loss of will power

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Anhedonia noun · 86% connection

an inability to experience pleasure

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Catathymia noun · 86% connection

A state in which mental processes are under the control of the emotions.; "The original idea of catathymia forwarded by Maier (1912),…

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Cognitive state noun · 86% connection

the state of a person's cognitive processes

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Decentering noun · 86% connection

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

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Decentration noun · 86% connection

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

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Delusion noun · 86% connection

(psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

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Delusions of grandeur noun · 86% connection

a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are

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Delusions of persecution noun · 86% connection

a delusion (common in paranoia) that others are out to get you and frustrate and embarrass you or inflict suffering on you; a complica…

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Depersonalisation noun · 86% connection

(existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine

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Depersonalization noun · 86% connection

(existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine

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Disassociation noun · 86% connection

a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently

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Frame of mind noun · 86% connection

a temporary psychological state

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Hallucinosis noun · 86% connection

a mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations

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Identity crisis noun · 86% connection

distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about one's self and one'…

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Mental condition noun · 86% connection

(psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic;…

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Mental disease noun · 86% connection

any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychia…

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Acrylamide noun · 78% connection

a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals; "they claimed tha…

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Amyloid plaque noun · 78% connection

a plaque consisting of tangles of amyloid protein in nervous tissue (a pathological mark of Alzheimer's disease)

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Amyloid protein plaque noun · 78% connection

a plaque consisting of tangles of amyloid protein in nervous tissue (a pathological mark of Alzheimer's disease)

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Ataxy noun · 78% connection

The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition.

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Brain noun · 78% connection

that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the s…

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Central nervous system noun · 78% connection

the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord

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Clinical neurology noun · 78% connection

(neurology) the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system and its disorders

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CNS noun · 78% connection

the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord

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Cryptococcosis noun · 78% connection

a fungal infection characterized by nodular lesions — first in the lungs and spreading to the nervous system

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Disseminated multiple sclerosis noun · 78% connection

a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers

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Disseminated sclerosis noun · 78% connection

a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers

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Dopamine noun · 78% connection

a monoamine neurotransmitter found in the brain and essential for the normal functioning of the central nervous system; as a drug (tra…

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