edginess
Noun
Meaning
feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
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I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.
youth and void and edginess ruin men.
The neighborhood's unpredictability enhances its intriguing edginess.