trepidation

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Anxiety over the uncertain future or possible ill-occurrence.
  2. (countable, uncountable) An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear.
  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.

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/ˌtɹɛp.ɪˈdeɪ.ʃən/
Etymologie (Engels)

Borrowed from Latin trepidātiō, from trepidō (“be agitated”).

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