'Twitching' definitions:
Definition of 'twitching'
From: WordNet
noun
A sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition [syn: twitch, twitching, vellication]
Definition of 'Twitching'
From: GCIDE
- Twitch \Twitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twitched; p. pr. & vb. n. Twitching.] [OE. twicchen, fr. (doubtful) AS. twiccian; akin to AS. angeltwicca a worm used for bait, literally, a hook twitcher, LG. twikken to tweak, G. zwicken. Cf. Tweak.] To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes. [1913 Webster]
- Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'twitching'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstraction,
- abulia,
- agitation,
- alienation,
- anxiety,
- anxiety equivalent,
- anxiety state,
- apathy,
- apprehensiveness,
- attack of nerves,
- buck fever,
- case of nerves,
- catatonic stupor,
- compulsion,
- convulsive,
- dejection,
- depression,
- detachment,
- eclamptic,
- elation,
- emotionalism,
- euphoria,
- excessive irritability,
- fear,
- fidgetiness,
- fidgets,
- fidgety,
- fitful,
- folie du doute,
- formication,
- hypochondria,
- hysteria,
- hysterics,
- indifference,
- insensibility,
- itchiness,
- jerking,
- jerky,
- jiggety,
- jumpy,
- lethargy,
- mania,
- melancholia,
- mental distress,
- morbid excitability,
- nerves,
- nervosity,
- nervous stomach,
- nervousness,
- obsession,
- orgasmic,
- panic,
- panickiness,
- pathological indecisiveness,
- preoccupation,
- pruritus,
- psychalgia,
- psychomotor disturbance,
- saltatory,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- spell of nerves,
- stage fright,
- state of nerves,
- stupor,
- tic,
- trepidation,
- twitchety,
- twitchy,
- uneasiness,
- unresponsiveness,
- vellication,
- vellicative,
- withdrawal