squeamishness
Aversion to gore
Squeamishness is excessive sensitivity to unpleasant sights, smells, or situations—the quality of being easily nauseated or disturbed.
Someone with squeamishness about blood shouldn't become a surgeon.
The word extends to moral fastidiousness: His squeamishness about office politics held back his career.
It often carries a hint of judgment, suggesting the sensitivity is excessive or precious.
Intense physical disgust
- repulsionDisgust or pushing-away force
- queasinessMild stomach disturbance
- aversionIntense dislike or repugnance
- distasteMild aversion or dislike
loathing · recoiling · flinching · cringing · wincing · horror · repugnance · abhorrence
Excessively particular, hard to satisfy
- fussyExcessively particular
- pickyExcessively selective or particular
- particularSpecific or fussy
- persnicketyExcessively concerned with details
prissy · dainty · delicate · choosy · meticulous · overcautious · prudish · easily offended
Mildly sick to stomach
- nauseatedFeeling urge to vomit
- sick to one's stomachExperiencing strong nausea
- gagMouth restraint or jest
- retchGag involuntarily
bilious · green around the gills · heave · upset stomach · wooziness · faintness · light-headed · motion sickness
Lacking resolve or nerve
- timidLacking courage or confidence
- cowardlyWithout bravery or nerve
- nervousUneasy and apprehensive
- hesitantSlow to act
shrinking · skittish · lily-livered · fearful · apprehensive · chicken-hearted · spineless · gutless
revulsion
Intense physical disgust
- repulsionDisgust or pushing-away force
- queasinessMild stomach disturbance
- aversionIntense dislike or repugnance
distaste · loathing · recoiling · flinching · cringing · wincing · horror · repugnance · abhorrence · turning away
finicky
Excessively particular, hard to satisfy
- fussyExcessively particular
- pickyExcessively selective or particular
- particularSpecific or fussy
persnickety · prissy · dainty · delicate · choosy · meticulous · overcautious · prudish · easily offended · oversensitive
queasy
Mildly sick to stomach
- nauseatedFeeling urge to vomit
- sick to one's stomachExperiencing strong nausea
- gagMouth restraint or jest
retch · bilious · green around the gills · heave · upset stomach · wooziness · faintness · light-headed · motion sickness · seasick
faint-hearted
Lacking resolve or nerve
hesitant · shrinking · skittish · lily-livered · fearful · apprehensive · chicken-hearted · spineless · gutless · wimpy
- horrorhorror, terror, fear, dread, haunted
- aversionsaversion, dislike, distaste, hatred, loathing
- disgustdisgust, disgusting, disgusted, revulsion, repulsion
- nauseaqueasiness, queasy feeling, queasy stomach, sick feeling, upset stomach
- reluctancereluctance, unwillingness, disinclination, hesitation, reticence
- sensitivitysensitivity, sensitive, hypersensitivity, oversensitivity, hypersensitive
squeamishnesshardiness
Ability to endure adversity
toughness · fortitude · resilience · thick skin · imperviousness
squeamishnessunscrupulousness
Lack of ethical restraint
indelicacy · ruthlessness · callousness · cold-bloodedness · coarseness
squeamishnessboldness
Fearless readiness to act
gutsiness · nerve · fearlessness · fortitude · intrepidity