skittishness Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈskɪt.ɪʃ.nəs]
  • Us [ ˈskɪt̬.ɪʃ.nəs]

Meaning of skittishness In English

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Examples of skittishness

  • There were continuing signs of investor skittishness in the New York stock market.

  • Their skittishness is often interpreted as rudeness by playmates, parents, and teachers.

  • Economic skittishness is prompting manufacturers of consumer items to cut back production.

  • But then the stock started to decline and now has run into investor skittishness about the broader tech sector.

  • Equities are lately reacting with far less skittishness to the threat of rates rising from near zero percent.

  • Is there a benefit to all this skittishness?

  • It's as if he sees and hears himself through the animals' eyes and ears, feeling their childlike skittishness and fear.

  • Is this the start of a new phase of investor skittishness?

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