Definition of “edginess”

"If you go to Nigeria now, there's a lot of edginess , violence, corruption, sex, that kind of thing," she said.

A jittery energy seemed to flow from him, filling the car with restless, pent-up edginess.

And, also unvoiced, there was a common edginess in Balgriffin which had not been there before the man had been discovered in the grandstand.

Excess oestrogen causes edginess and an inability to concentrate.

From the outset there's edginess to charismatic guitarist/ singer Martin Trimble's voice that's as exhilarating as rock should be.

He has the edginess Ottawa needs... Penguins RW Alexei Kovalev has been quietly shopped around the NHL.

She had a bath, hoping that the warm water would soothe away the edginess which made her skin prickle and her nerves twitch.

There was an edginess that saw Ulster fail to convert a number of early opportunities despite dominating the play.

These gave way to landscapes charged with a similar sense of disturbance and edginess.