nerviness

The word “nerviness” has 3 syllables: ner-vi-ness

It's pronounced as /ˈnɝː.vi.nəs/


What is synonym and antonym for nerviness?

In the thesaurus, “nerviness” has 64 synonyms and 16 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for nerviness along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for nerviness

  • arrogance
  • assumption
  • assurance
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • back talk
  • boldness
  • brashness
  • brass
  • brassiness
  • brazenness
  • cheek
  • cheekiness
  • chutzpa
  • chutzpah
  • cockiness
  • confidence
  • crust
  • defiance
  • discourteousness
  • discourtesy
  • disrespect
  • disrespectfulness
  • effrontery
  • face
  • familiarity
  • forwardness
  • gall
  • guts
  • gutsiness
  • hardihood
  • hardiness
  • hutzpa
  • hutzpah
  • impertinence
  • impoliteness
  • impudence
  • impudency
  • incivility
  • inconsiderateness
  • inconsideration
  • insolence
  • moxie
  • nerve
  • overconfidence
  • pertness
  • presumption
  • presumptuousness
  • pushiness
  • rudeness
  • sanguinity
  • sass
  • sassiness
  • sauce
  • sauciness
  • self-assurance
  • self-confidence
  • shamelessness
  • spunk
  • stuff
  • swagger
  • swash
  • temerity
  • ungraciousness

Antonyms for nerviness

  • bashfulness
  • civility
  • courteousness
  • courtesy
  • diffidence
  • faintheartedness
  • gentility
  • graciousness
  • hesitancy
  • mannerliness
  • manners
  • modesty
  • shyness
  • timidity
  • timidness
  • timorousness

Example Sentences

  • Her nerviness was evident as she tapped her fingers on the desk.
  • The nerviness in his voice made it clear he was not confident about the plan.
  • Despite her nerviness, she managed to give an excellent presentation.
  • His nerviness often made it difficult for him to stay calm under pressure.
  • The actor's nerviness before the performance was visible to everyone backstage.

On this page you'll find 80 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to nerviness, such as: arrogance, assumption, assurance, audaciousness, audacity, back talk, bashfulness.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

backbone

  • audacity
  • back
  • base
  • basis
  • boldness
  • brass
  • bravery
  • cheek
  • chine
  • chutzpa
  • chutzpah
  • constancy
  • courage
  • courageousness
  • daring
  • dauntlessness
  • determination
  • doughtiness
  • effrontery
  • endurance
  • fearlessness
  • fiber
  • firmness
  • forbearance
  • fortitude
  • foundation
  • gall
  • gallantry
  • greatheartedness
  • grit
  • grittiness
  • guts
  • hardihood
  • heart
  • hutzpa
  • hutzpah
  • intestinal fortitude
  • intrepidity
  • intrepidness
  • mettle
  • moral fiber
  • nerve
  • nerviness
  • pluck
  • purposefulness
  • resoluteness
  • resolution
  • resolve
  • spinal column
  • spinal cord
  • spine
  • spirit
  • spunk
  • stamina
  • steadfastness
  • stoutness
  • sufferance
  • support
  • temerity
  • tenacity
  • tolerance
  • toughness
  • valor
  • vertebra
  • vertebrae
  • vertebral column
  • will
  • willpower

effrontery

  • arrogance
  • assurance
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • back talk
  • backtalk
  • brashness
  • brass
  • brassiness
  • brazenness
  • cheek
  • cheekiness
  • chutzpa
  • chutzpah
  • cockiness
  • confidence
  • crust
  • discourteousness
  • disrespect
  • face
  • gall
  • guff
  • hardihood
  • hutzpa
  • hutzpah
  • impertinence
  • impoliteness
  • impudence
  • incivility
  • inconsiderateness
  • inconsideration
  • insolence
  • lip
  • nerve
  • nerviness
  • overconfidence
  • pertness
  • presumption
  • presumptuousness
  • rudeness
  • sanguinity
  • sass
  • sauce
  • sauciness
  • self-assurance
  • self-confidence
  • shamelessness
  • smart talk
  • swagger
  • swash
  • temerity
  • ungraciousness

face

  • Potemkin village
  • abide
  • abut
  • accost
  • adjoin
  • affectation
  • affront
  • air
  • allow
  • apparel
  • appearance
  • approach
  • array
  • arrogance
  • aspect
  • assurance
  • assuredness
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • authoritarianism
  • baby
  • back talk
  • battle
  • be confronted by
  • be turned toward
  • bear
  • beard
  • bearing
  • being
  • bird
  • bit the bullet
  • blanket
  • bod
  • body
  • boldness
  • border
  • bound
  • brace
  • brashness
  • brass
  • brassiness
  • brave
  • brazen
  • brazenness
  • breast
  • brook
  • brother
  • cast
  • celebrity
  • certainty
  • certitude
  • challenge
  • character
  • cheek
  • cheekiness
  • chutzpa
  • chutzpah
  • clad
  • cloak
  • clock
  • clothe
  • coat
  • cockiness
  • cocksureness
  • combat
  • command
  • confidence
  • confront
  • contend
  • conviction
  • cookie
  • cooky
  • cope with
  • corner
  • countenance
  • court
  • cover
  • covering
  • creature
  • cross
  • crust
  • customer
  • dare
  • deal with
  • decisiveness
  • decorate
  • defy
  • demeanor
  • demonstration
  • determination
  • devil
  • dial
  • dignity
  • discourteousness
  • disguise
  • display
  • disrespect
  • dogmatism
  • dominate
  • doubtlessness
  • dress
  • duck
  • effect
  • effrontery
  • egg
  • embosom
  • embower
  • embrace
  • emulate
  • encase
  • enclose
  • encompass
  • encounter
  • endure
  • engage
  • enshroud
  • envelop
  • enwrap
  • experience
  • expression
  • exterior
  • eyeball
  • facade
  • facet
  • facing
  • false front
  • features
  • fellow
  • fellowman
  • fiction
  • fight
  • finish
  • firmness
  • first blush
  • fish
  • flinch
  • fly in face of
  • forehead
  • forepart
  • fringe
  • front
  • front onto
  • frontage
  • frontal
  • frontispiece
  • frown
  • gall
  • garb
  • gaze
  • glare
  • gloss
  • glower
  • go up against
  • grapple with
  • grimace
  • grin
  • growl
  • guise
  • guy
  • hardihood
  • head
  • hint
  • hominid
  • homo
  • honor
  • human
  • human being
  • humanoid
  • hutzpa
  • hutzpah
  • image
  • imitation
  • impertinence
  • implication
  • impoliteness
  • imposture
  • impression
  • impudence
  • incivility
  • inclose
  • inconsiderateness
  • inconsideration
  • individual
  • insinuation
  • insolence
  • invest
  • kisser
  • lap
  • level
  • life
  • light
  • likeness
  • line
  • lineaments
  • look
  • looks
  • lour
  • lower
  • make a stand
  • make-belief
  • make-believe
  • makeup
  • man
  • manner
  • mantle
  • map
  • margin
  • mask
  • masquerade
  • meet
  • mien
  • mortal
  • moue
  • mouth
  • mow
  • mug
  • name
  • neighbor
  • nerve
  • nerviness
  • obverse
  • oppose
  • outbrave
  • outface
  • outside
  • outward
  • overconfidence
  • overlay
  • overlook
  • overspread
  • paint
  • pan
  • party
  • patina
  • person
  • personage
  • personality
  • pertness
  • physiognomy
  • plaster
  • polish
  • pose
  • positiveness
  • pout
  • presence
  • presentation
  • prestige
  • presumption
  • presumptuousness
  • pretence
  • pretense
  • profile
  • purposefulness
  • puss
  • redecorate
  • refinish
  • remodel
  • repel
  • representation
  • reputation
  • resemblance
  • resist
  • resoluteness
  • resolution
  • resolve
  • rictus
  • rim
  • risk
  • rival
  • robe
  • rudeness
  • run into
  • sanguinity
  • sass
  • satisfaction
  • sauce
  • sauciness
  • scoff
  • scout
  • scowl
  • seeming
  • self
  • self-assurance
  • self-confidence
  • self-respect
  • semblance
  • shape
  • sheath
  • sheathe
  • shell
  • shingle
  • show
  • showing
  • shroud
  • side
  • silhouette
  • simper
  • simulacrum
  • simulation
  • skin
  • skirt
  • slob
  • smile
  • smirk
  • smooth
  • snarl
  • sneer
  • snoot
  • social position
  • somebody
  • son of man
  • sort
  • soul
  • specimen
  • square off
  • squinch
  • stand
  • stand up to
  • standing
  • stare
  • stiff
  • stomach
  • submit
  • suffer
  • suggestion
  • sureness
  • surety
  • surface
  • surround
  • sustain
  • swagger
  • swallow
  • swash
  • swathe
  • take
  • take it
  • take on
  • take the bull by the horns
  • tell off
  • temerity
  • thing
  • tolerate
  • top
  • touch
  • ungraciousness
  • veil
  • veneer
  • venture
  • visage
  • watch
  • wight
  • wince
  • withstand
  • wrap

gall

  • abrade
  • acrimony
  • affront
  • aggravate
  • agitate
  • alienation
  • anger
  • animosity
  • animus
  • annoy
  • antagonism
  • antagonize
  • antipathy
  • arrogance
  • assurance
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • back talk
  • bad blood
  • badger
  • bait
  • ballyrag
  • bark
  • bedevil
  • bite
  • bitterness
  • blood feud
  • bother
  • brashness
  • brass
  • brassiness
  • brazenness
  • break down
  • break up
  • bug
  • bullyrag
  • burn
  • chafe
  • cheek
  • cheekiness
  • chew
  • chide
  • chutzpa
  • chutzpah
  • cockiness
  • conceit
  • confidence
  • conflict
  • coolness
  • corrade
  • corrode
  • crust
  • crust cynicism
  • decompose
  • devil
  • disaffection
  • discomfort
  • discompose
  • discord
  • discourteousness
  • disintegrate
  • disquiet
  • disrespect
  • dissolve
  • distress
  • disturb
  • eat
  • effrontery
  • enflame
  • enmity
  • enrage
  • erase
  • erode
  • estrangement
  • exasperate
  • excoriate
  • exercise
  • face
  • feud
  • file
  • flay
  • fray
  • frazzle
  • fret
  • friction
  • frost
  • get
  • get to
  • gnaw
  • grate
  • graze
  • grind
  • gripe
  • grudge
  • guts
  • hagride
  • harass
  • hardihood
  • harry
  • hassle
  • hate
  • hatred
  • haughtiness
  • heckle
  • hone
  • hostility
  • hutzpa
  • hutzpah
  • impertinence
  • impoliteness
  • impudence
  • incense
  • incivility
  • inconsiderateness
  • inconsideration
  • inflame
  • infuriate
  • inhospitableness
  • insolence
  • insult
  • irk
  • irritate
  • itch
  • jaundice
  • loathing
  • madden
  • malevolence
  • malice
  • malignancy
  • malignity
  • miff
  • nag
  • nark
  • nerve
  • nerviness
  • nettle
  • nibble
  • offend
  • outrage
  • overbearance
  • overconfidence
  • peel
  • peeve
  • persecute
  • pertness
  • perturb
  • pester
  • pique
  • plague
  • pomposity
  • presumption
  • presumptuousness
  • provoke
  • put out
  • rancor
  • rankle
  • rasp
  • reduce
  • rile
  • roil
  • rouse
  • rub
  • rub out
  • rub the wrong way
  • rudeness
  • ruffle
  • sandblast
  • sandpaper
  • sanguinity
  • sass
  • sauce
  • sauciness
  • score
  • scour
  • scrape
  • scratch
  • scuff
  • self-assurance
  • self-confidence
  • self-importance
  • sharpen
  • shave
  • skin
  • spite
  • spitefulness
  • strain
  • swagger
  • swash
  • tease
  • temerity
  • tension
  • torment
  • trouble
  • undo
  • unfriendliness
  • ungraciousness
  • unhinge
  • unsettle
  • upset
  • vendetta
  • venom
  • vex
  • vindictiveness
  • virulence
  • vitriol
  • wear
  • wear on
  • wear out
  • whet
  • worry

immodesty

  • X-rating
  • abomination
  • affront
  • airs
  • amiability
  • amour-propre
  • arrogance
  • assumption
  • atrocity
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • barbarism
  • bawdiness
  • bawdry
  • big head
  • big-headedness
  • bigheadedness
  • blasphemy
  • blight
  • blueness
  • blunder
  • boastfulness
  • boldness
  • bragging
  • brashness
  • brazenness
  • camaraderie
  • cheek
  • cheekiness
  • churlishness
  • chutzpah
  • coarseness
  • cockiness
  • companionship
  • complacence
  • complacency
  • conceit
  • condescension
  • consequence
  • contumely
  • conviviality
  • cordiality
  • crudeness
  • crudity
  • curse
  • dirt
  • dirtiness
  • dirty name
  • dirty word
  • discourteousness
  • discourtesy
  • disdain
  • disdainfulness
  • disrespect
  • drunkenness
  • effrontery
  • ego trip
  • egoism
  • egotism
  • epithet
  • evil
  • expletive
  • exposing oneself
  • extraversion
  • extroversion
  • face
  • familiarity
  • faux pas
  • fellowship
  • filth
  • filthiness
  • flashing
  • folksiness
  • forwardness
  • foulness
  • four-letter word
  • friendliness
  • gaffe
  • gall
  • gaucherie
  • goof
  • grandioseness
  • grandiosity
  • gregariousness
  • grossness
  • haughtiness
  • hauteur
  • hubris
  • impertinence
  • impoliteness
  • improperness
  • impropriety
  • imprudence
  • impudence
  • impurity
  • inappropriateness
  • incivility
  • incongruity
  • inconsiderateness
  • inconsideration
  • incorrectness
  • indecency
  • indecent exposure
  • indecorousness
  • indecorum
  • indelicacy
  • indelicateness
  • indiscreetness
  • indiscretion
  • inelegance
  • insolence
  • large hat size
  • lewdness
  • licentiousness
  • loftiness
  • lubrici
  • lubricity
  • narcissism
  • naughtiness
  • neighborliness
  • nerve
  • nerviness
  • oath
  • offense
  • ostentation
  • outrage
  • outrageousness
  • outrecuidance
  • overconfidence
  • patronage
  • pertness
  • pomposity
  • pompousness
  • porn
  • pornography
  • presumption
  • presumptuousness
  • pretension
  • pretentiousness
  • pride
  • profaneness
  • profanity
  • proud flesh
  • prurience
  • pushiness
  • ribaldry
  • rudeness
  • salacity
  • sassiness
  • sauciness
  • scatology
  • scurrility
  • scurrilousness
  • self-absorption
  • self-admiration
  • self-aggrandizement
  • self-centeredness
  • self-conceit
  • self-display
  • self-exaltation
  • self-importance
  • self-love
  • self-praise
  • self-regard
  • selfishness
  • showing off
  • sleaze
  • slip
  • smugness
  • smut
  • smuttiness
  • snobbery
  • snottiness
  • sociability
  • solecism
  • stuck-upness
  • stuffiness
  • suggestiveness
  • superbity
  • superciliousness
  • swagger
  • swearword
  • swelled head
  • swelled-headedness
  • unbecomingness
  • unfitness
  • ungraciousness
  • unseemliness
  • unsuitability
  • unsuitableness
  • untowardness
  • vaingloriousness
  • vainglory
  • vainness
  • vanity
  • vileness
  • vulgarism
  • vulgarity
  • vulgarness
  • wrong

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