Trepidation (noun)
trep-id-ay-shun
A feeling of fear or anxiety about something that may happen.
Late 15th century: from Latin trepidatio(n-), from trepidare ‘be agitated, tremble’, from trepidus ‘alarmed’.
Example sentences
“We didn’t know what to expect so we set off in fear and trepidation.”

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