different between trepidation vs aquiver

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trepid?ti?, from trepid? (“be agitated”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?t??p.??de?.??n/

Noun

trepidation (countable and uncountable, plural trepidations)

1. A fearful state; a state of concern or hesitation.

   Synonyms: agitation, apprehension, consternation, fear, hesitation, worry

   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section vi

     She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation. Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace?
2. An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
3. (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.

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References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “trepidation”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• departition, partitioned

English

Etymology

From a- +? quiver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kw?v?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)

Adjective

aquiver (not comparable)

1. In a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering.
   • 1879, W. S. Gilbert, The Pirates of Penzance, New York: Hitchcock Publishing Company, Act II, p. 35,^[1]

     Sighing softly to the river

     Comes the lonely breeze,

     Setting Nature all a-quiver,

     Rustling through the trees,

   • 1961, Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us, New York: Oxford University Press, revised edition, Part 1, p. 66,^[2]

     Almost the whole continental rim of the Pacific basin is aquiver with earthquakes and fiery with volcanoes, some frequently active, some extinct, some merely sleeping a centuries-long sleep between periods of explosive violence.