trepidation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Anxiety over the uncertain future or possible ill-occurrence.

   I decided, with considerable trepidation, to let him drive my car without me.

Simplified etymology

Trepidation entered English in the late Middle Ages from the Latin family of trepidare, “to be agitated,” related to tremere, “to tremble.”

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

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