different between trepidation vs fearfulness

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.

fearful +? -ness

fearfulness (usually uncountable, plural fearfulnesses)

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