Fidget
verb
To make small movements, especially of the hands and feet, through nervousness or impatience.
John was fidgeting nervously during his interview
Often appears as...
- fidget with something
- fidget around
noun
A quick, nervous movement, typically of the hands and feet.
Jim tried not to show his fidget during the awkward silence
Often appears as...
- show a fidget
- hide a fidget
noun
A device that people can fiddle with, especially to reduce stress or nervous energy.
Sarah's son always uses his fidget spinner when he feels anxious
Often appears as...
- fidget spinner
- fidget cube
verb
To make small movements, especially of the hands and feet, through nervousness or impatience.
John was fidgeting nervously during his interview
Often appears as...
- fidget with something
- fidget around
noun
A quick, nervous movement, typically of the hands and feet.
Jim tried not to show his fidget during the awkward silence
Often appears as...
- show a fidget
- hide a fidget
noun
A device that people can fiddle with, especially to reduce stress or nervous energy.
Sarah's son always uses his fidget spinner when he feels anxious
Often appears as...
- fidget spinner
- fidget cube
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional State
Indicates anxiety or discomfort, not only impatience.
Emma started to fidget whenever the conversation turned to her health.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Sign
Can reveal feelings someone's trying to hide.
Despite his calm voice, his constant fidgeting betrayed his nervousness.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Bad
Sometimes viewed as a sign of deep thinking or concentration.
The scientist fidgeted with her pen while solving complex equations.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional State
Indicates anxiety or discomfort, not only impatience.
Emma started to fidget whenever the conversation turned to her health.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Sign
Can reveal feelings someone's trying to hide.
Despite his calm voice, his constant fidgeting betrayed his nervousness.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Bad
Sometimes viewed as a sign of deep thinking or concentration.
The scientist fidgeted with her pen while solving complex equations.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional State
Indicates anxiety or discomfort, not only impatience.
Emma started to fidget whenever the conversation turned to her health.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Sign
Can reveal feelings someone's trying to hide.
Despite his calm voice, his constant fidgeting betrayed his nervousness.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Bad
Sometimes viewed as a sign of deep thinking or concentration.
The scientist fidgeted with her pen while solving complex equations.
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How to spot a liar PIPE...
Now this brings us to our next pattern, which is body language. With body language, here's what you've got to do. You've really got to just throw your assumptions out the door. Let the science temper your knowledge a little bit. Because we think liars fidget all the time.
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The psychological weight...
it with a knife and a fork trust me it feels ridiculous to eat a snickers bar like this but it helped me be more conscious of what i was eating i learned to be in perpetual motion all day every day looking for ways to move and to fidget because fidgeting can burn 200 300
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Our story of rape and...
where I asked the waitress for a pen. I always had a notebook with me, claiming that it was to jot down ideas in moments of inspiration, but the truth was that I needed to be constantly fidgeting, because in moments of stillness, I found myself counting seconds again.
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Do schools kill...
It was interesting. When she was at school, she was really hopeless. And the school, in the '30s, wrote to her parents and said, "We think Gillian has a learning disorder." She couldn't concentrate; she was fidgeting. I think now they'd say she had ADHD. Wouldn't you?
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What is a calorie? -...
or long distance running, or fidgeting? But what is a calorie, really, and how many of them do we actually need? Calories are a way of keeping track of the body's energy budget. A healthy balance occurs when we put in about as much energy as we lose.
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God Is My Drug PIPE Explorer
for spiritual ecstasy. Religion as I knew it was a childhood battle against boredom, fidgeting in the face of archaic text. But in Jerusalem, religion can be more like the misspent nights of my youth, a God rave right in the middle of the streets.
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How to escape...
ADHD. I'm not saying there's no such thing. I just don't believe it's an epidemic like this. If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget, you know?
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Connected, but alone? PIPE...
that we will never have to be alone, is central to changing our psyches. Because the moment that people are alone, even for a few seconds, they become anxious, they panic, they fidget, they reach for a device.
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What it's really like to...
they can be quite overwhelming. So in those situations, we do something called stimming, which is like a repetitive motion or a noise or some other random fidgeting that may or may not seem normal.
Video examples
Daniel Kish: How I use...
How do you picture this theater? Lots of loudspeakers, quite frankly. It's interesting. When people make a sound, when they laugh, when they fidget, when they take a drink or blow their nose
Video examples
How to spot a liar PIPE...
Now this brings us to our next pattern, which is body language. With body language, here's what you've got to do. You've really got to just throw your assumptions out the door. Let the science temper your knowledge a little bit. Because we think liars fidget all the time.
Video examples
The psychological weight...
it with a knife and a fork trust me it feels ridiculous to eat a snickers bar like this but it helped me be more conscious of what i was eating i learned to be in perpetual motion all day every day looking for ways to move and to fidget because fidgeting can burn 200 300
Video examples
Our story of rape and...
where I asked the waitress for a pen. I always had a notebook with me, claiming that it was to jot down ideas in moments of inspiration, but the truth was that I needed to be constantly fidgeting, because in moments of stillness, I found myself counting seconds again.
Video examples
Do schools kill...
It was interesting. When she was at school, she was really hopeless. And the school, in the '30s, wrote to her parents and said, "We think Gillian has a learning disorder." She couldn't concentrate; she was fidgeting. I think now they'd say she had ADHD. Wouldn't you?
Video examples
What is a calorie? -...
or long distance running, or fidgeting? But what is a calorie, really, and how many of them do we actually need? Calories are a way of keeping track of the body's energy budget. A healthy balance occurs when we put in about as much energy as we lose.
Video examples
God Is My Drug PIPE Explorer
for spiritual ecstasy. Religion as I knew it was a childhood battle against boredom, fidgeting in the face of archaic text. But in Jerusalem, religion can be more like the misspent nights of my youth, a God rave right in the middle of the streets.
Video examples
How to escape...
ADHD. I'm not saying there's no such thing. I just don't believe it's an epidemic like this. If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget, you know?
Video examples
Connected, but alone? PIPE...
that we will never have to be alone, is central to changing our psyches. Because the moment that people are alone, even for a few seconds, they become anxious, they panic, they fidget, they reach for a device.
Video examples
What it's really like to...
they can be quite overwhelming. So in those situations, we do something called stimming, which is like a repetitive motion or a noise or some other random fidgeting that may or may not seem normal.
Video examples
Daniel Kish: How I use...
How do you picture this theater? Lots of loudspeakers, quite frankly. It's interesting. When people make a sound, when they laugh, when they fidget, when they take a drink or blow their nose
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Robin Marantz Henig
Writer
Beliefs about how lying looks are plentiful and often contradictory: depending on whom you choose to believe, liars can be detected because they fidget a lot, hold very still, cross their legs, cross their arms, look up, look down, make eye contact or fail to make eye contact.
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John le Carre
English Writer
I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor
English Musician
I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.
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Adam Conover
American Comedian
I find that I have a lot of suppressed energy when I'm on a plane for a long period so when I'm holding a fidget spinner, being able to play with it and just sort of run my hands over it helps me out quite a lot; it helps me relax.
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Jesse Eisenberg
American Actor
I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.
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Thelma Schoonmaker
Algerian Editor
When you're in a movie with an audience, you can feel where a film is dragging. People start to move. They fidget. You need that perspective. To give it a cold eye.
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Richard Ford
American Author
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
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Devon Sawa
Canadian Actor
I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.
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Jenny Slate
American Actress
I fidget and change my outfit a lot. It's really a way of keeping myself comfortable.
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Pamela Meyer
American Author
Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
Quote examples
Robin Marantz Henig
Writer
Beliefs about how lying looks are plentiful and often contradictory: depending on whom you choose to believe, liars can be detected because they fidget a lot, hold very still, cross their legs, cross their arms, look up, look down, make eye contact or fail to make eye contact.
Quote examples
John le Carre
English Writer
I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.
Quote examples
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
English Musician
I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.
Quote examples
Adam Conover
American Comedian
I find that I have a lot of suppressed energy when I'm on a plane for a long period so when I'm holding a fidget spinner, being able to play with it and just sort of run my hands over it helps me out quite a lot; it helps me relax.
Quote examples
Jesse Eisenberg
American Actor
I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.
Quote examples
Thelma Schoonmaker
Algerian Editor
When you're in a movie with an audience, you can feel where a film is dragging. People start to move. They fidget. You need that perspective. To give it a cold eye.
Quote examples
Richard Ford
American Author
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
Quote examples
Devon Sawa
Canadian Actor
I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.
Quote examples
Jenny Slate
American Actress
I fidget and change my outfit a lot. It's really a way of keeping myself comfortable.
Quote examples
Pamela Meyer
American Author
Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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