nerve
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Synonyms for nerve
bravery
impudence
tension
Synonyms
- tension
- stress
- strain
- anxiety
- butterflies (in your stomach)
- nervousness
- cold feet
- heebie-jeebies
- worry
get on someone's nerves
nerve yourself
Synonyms
- brace yourself
- prepare yourself
- steel yourself
- fortify yourself
- gear yourself up
- gee yourself up
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Synonyms for nerve
the quality of mind enabling one to face danger or hardship resolutely
the state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident
Synonyms
- assumption
- audaciousness
- audacity
- boldness
- brashness
- brazenness
- cheek
- cheekiness
- chutzpah
- discourtesy
- disrespect
- effrontery
- face
- familiarity
- forwardness
- gall
- impertinence
- impudence
- impudency
- incivility
- insolence
- nerviness
- overconfidence
- pertness
- presumptuousness
- pushiness
- rudeness
- sassiness
- sauciness
- brass
- crust
- sauce
- uppishness
- uppityness
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Synonyms for nerve
any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
Synonyms
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- radicle
- nerve fiber
- nerve fibre
- synapse
- efferent
- efferent nerve
- motor nerve
- afferent
- afferent nerve
- sensory nerve
- fasciculus
- fiber bundle
- fibre bundle
- fascicle
- cranial nerve
- depressor nerve
- depressor
- musculospiral nerve
- nervus radialis
- radial nerve
- splanchnic nerve
- nervus ischiadicus
- sciatic nerve
- nervus saphenus
- saphenous nerve
- cubital nerve
- nervus ulnaris
- ulnar nerve
- nervus spinalis
- spinal nerve
impudent aggressiveness
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