excitableness
Tendency toward agitation
The quality of being easily excited or aroused to emotional response.
Someone with excitableness reacts quickly and intensely to stimuli—good news, bad news, unexpected events.
His excitableness made him exhausting to be around.
The word is formal and somewhat awkward; excitability is more common.
State of anxious unease
- edginessRestless nervous tension
- high-strungNervously sensitive temperament
- irritabilityProneness to agitation
- touchinessReadiness to feel slighted
restlessness · jitteriness · anxiety · tenseness · impatience · fidgetiness · overstrung · brittleness
Nervous, easily startled state
- skittishnessProne to sudden alarm
- startleFrighten suddenly
- reflexInvoluntary stimulus response
- twitchinessTendency toward sudden jerks
hypersensitivity · trigger-happy · hair-trigger · oversensitivity · responsiveness · impressionability · suggestibility · susceptibility
Intense willingness to act
- zealIntense driving devotion
- passionIntense emotional drive
- vivacityAnimated spirit or energy
- exuberanceLively, unrestrained enthusiasm
fervor · ardor · animation · spiritedness · vigor · energy · zest · verve
State resisting forecasts
- instabilityTendency toward unpredictable change
- capriciousnessErratic, unpredictable behavior
- ficklenessLack of steadfast devotion
- mercurialityErratic changeability of mood
impulsiveness · changeability · inconstancy · explosiveness · turbulence · hot-headedness · quick-tempered
nervousness
State of anxious unease
- edginessRestless nervous tension
- high-strungNervously sensitive temperament
- irritabilityProneness to agitation
touchiness · restlessness · jitteriness · anxiety · tenseness · impatience · fidgetiness · overstrung · brittleness · hypersensitivity
jumpiness
Nervous, easily startled state
- skittishnessProne to sudden alarm
- startleFrighten suddenly
- reflexInvoluntary stimulus response
twitchiness · hypersensitivity · trigger-happy · hair-trigger · oversensitivity · responsiveness · impressionability · suggestibility · susceptibility · overreaction
eagerness
Intense willingness to act
exuberance · fervor · ardor · animation · spiritedness · vigor · energy · zest · verve · elan
unpredictability
State resisting forecasts
- instabilityTendency toward unpredictable change
- capriciousnessErratic, unpredictable behavior
- ficklenessLack of steadfast devotion
mercuriality · impulsiveness · changeability · inconstancy · explosiveness · turbulence · hot-headedness · quick-tempered
excitablenesscalmness
Peaceful mental state
composure · equanimity · imperturbability · placidity · serenity
excitablenesssteadiness
State of being constant
stability · evenness · constancy · impassivity · stolidity
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