skipped beat
Heart rhythm interruption
A skipped beat is the sensation that your heart has momentarily paused or fluttered, often from a minor irregularity in rhythm.
The phrase appears most often figuratively to describe a moment of sudden emotion—surprise, fear, or romantic attraction: My heart skipped a beat when I saw her.
- heart flutterIrregular heartbeat sensation
- flutterRapid light movement
- heartbeatRhythmic cardiac contraction
- palpitationIrregular heartbeat awareness
- missedFailed to reach
arrhythmia · gasp · catch your breath · startle · jolt · pause · thump · racing · racing heart · breathless · butterflies in stomach · lovesick · crush · love at first sight · nervous · excitement · fright · chest
- heart responsesheart rate, pulse, slow heartbeat, palpitations, racing heart
- heart sensationspalpitation, palpitations, flutter, fluttering, heart flutter
- arrhythmiasatrial fibrillation, A-fib, afib, arrhythmia, ventricular fibrillation
- heartbeatpulse, throb, lub-dub, thump, pounding
- timing problemsdelay, lag, timeout, late arrival, late start
emotional response
skipped beatsteady nerves
Emotional stability under pressure
indifference · unmoved · unfazed · equanimity · unflappable
skip, skipped, skipping, skipper, skips, beat, beats, beating, beaten