0 the fact of being easily upset or shocked by things that you find unpleasant or that you do not approve of:
Eventually I got over my squeamishness and held the human brain in my hands.
There is a general squeamishness about asking personal questions about the families of elected officials.
The filmmaker has pledged to shake Americans from their squeamishness about male anatomy in movies.
In the study there were examples of older people who initially found elements of care-giving very difficult, but who eventually conquered their fear or squeamishness.
His squeamishness is apparent, as is the puritanical attitude of himself and those ladies who were accompanying him.
At the same time the risk is that this immunity from natural squeamishness may lead to an insensitivity towards cruelty.
There are pockets of resistance or squeamishness about donation within the health service that we need to overcome.
The diffidence, squeamishness, robustness or common sense of a chief constable in another area can mean that no prosecutions take place.
