Fidget vs Nervousness - What's the difference?
fidget | nervousness |
To wiggle or twitch; to move around nervously or idly.
* 1883:
To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
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, chapter=1 The state or quality of being nervous.
As nouns the difference between fidget and nervousness
is that fidget is (informal) a person who fidgets, especially habitually while nervousness is the state or quality of being nervous.As a verb fidget
is to wiggle or twitch; to move around nervously or idly.fidget
English
Verb
- "Look, Jim, how my fingers fidget ," he continued, in the pleading tone. "I can't keep e'm still, not I."
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