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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Skit·tish a.
 1. Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. “A restiff, skittish jade.”
 2. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. “Skittish Fortune's hall.”
 -- Skit*tish*ly, adv. -- Skit*tish*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 skittishness
      n : characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright
          [syn: restiveness]