Meanings
nounedginess (usually uncountable, plural edginesses)
plural edginesses
- uncountableusuallyThe state of being edgy.
Fay Lie grabs Isaac Sachs’s elbow. “You’ll remember bumping into Luisa Rey the other day?” “I’m one lucky conscript. Hi, Luisa, again.” Luisa feels an edginess in his handshake.
2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 130
Synonyms & antonyms
nounfeelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
Broader
Also see
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
German Nervosität, Angespanntheit
- Nervositätstate of being edgy
- Angespanntheitstate of being edgy
Spanish efectismo, amarillismo
- efectismostate of being edgy
- amarillismostate of being edgy
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APA
edginess. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edginess
MLA
“edginess.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edginess. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “edginess,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edginess.
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