restiveness
skittishness
spook
jump in one's skin
spook out
flay
scaredness
sweats
send shivers down someone's spine
yellow
yellow-bellied
chickenhearted
frightfulness
chicken
lily-livered
white-livered
take fright
quiver
hairy
white-knuckle
tingle
shiver
frisson
thrill
chill
alarm
shudder
alarming
panic
frightensome
frightenedness
screaming meemies
overfearfulness
heebie-jeebies
bundle of nerves
funk
jitters
geek out
daunting
fearfulness
intimidating
scare
startfulness
terrible
dreadful
fearsome
frantic
dire
dread
frightening
dreaded
terrifiedness
fearful
horrendous
awful
direful
horrific
shy
affright
scarecrow
terror
overnervousness
fray
put the heart across one
shyness
pant-wetting
fearing
paranoialike
hair-raising
panicled
fearfully
timorsome
abdabs
intimidate
brick it
fright
frighten
scary
quake in one's boots
frightsome
frightenable
frenzied
eerie

English words for 'characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright'

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