Trepidancy

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈtɹɛpɪdÉ™nsi/

Origin

From trepidant + -cy.

Full definition of trepidancy

Noun

1. (rare) Trembling caused by fear or nervous agitation.
• 1840, w, w:The Fall of the House of Usher, In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence—an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy—an excessive nervous agitation.