Associations to the word «Trepidation»

Wiktionary

TREPIDATION, noun. A fearful state; a state of hesitation or concern.
TREPIDATION, noun. An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
TREPIDATION, noun. (astronomy) (obsolete) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.

Dictionary definition

TREPIDATION, noun. A feeling of alarm or dread.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats