different between trepidation vs detestation

English

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

trepidation (countable and uncountable, plural trepidations)

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?
An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
(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.

From Middle French détestation.

detestation (countable and uncountable, plural detestations)

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