nervous sweating
Fear makes you damp
Nervous sweating is perspiration triggered by anxiety, stress, or social discomfort rather than physical exertion or heat.
The body's fight-or-flight response activates sweat glands, particularly in the palms, underarms, and forehead: His nervous sweating was obvious during the job interview.
Unlike thermal sweating, it can occur in cool environments and often worsens self-consciousness.
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- social anxietyFear of being judged
- palmsHands' inner sides
- clammyMoist and cool
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
stress response · dread · panic · fight or flight · fear · jitters · perspiration · trembling · heart pounding · armpits · damp · job interview · stage fright · public speaking · interview · first date · exam · awkward
- awkward momentsoops, cringe, embarrassment, yikes, awkward
- stress symptomsanxiety attack, panic attack, panic attacks, stress headache, tension headache
- reactionsreaction, response, gasp, wince, flinch
- Memesdoge, rickrolling, Nyan Cat, lolcat, meme culture
- psychosomatic disordersconversion disorder, functional disorder, hypochondriasis, somatization, hysterical blindness
- Mind-Skin Disorderstrichotillomania, neurodermatitis, skin picking, nail biting, hair pulling
nervous sweatingrelaxed state
Condition of being calm
tranquility · equanimity · serenity · unflappability · inner peace
nervous sweatingcool and collected
dry skin · relaxed state · steady nerves · hot flash · resting state
nervous, nerve, nerves, nerved, nerving, nervously, nervousness, neural, neuron