1.
impatience, anxiety, feeling of urgency
An anxious feeling of needing to hurry, often causing mistakes.
焦り is a noun describing the feeling of impatience or anxious urgency, often one that leads to mistakes.
RELATED VERB:
焦る: to be impatient, to feel rushed
COMMON EXPRESSIONS:
- 焦りを感じる: to feel impatient
- 焦りは禁物: impatience is forbidden (proverb: haste makes waste)
- 焦りから失敗する: to fail due to impatience
- 焦りを隠す: to hide one's anxiety
NUANCE:
焦り implies a negative state—the feeling that time is running out and you need to hurry, often leading to careless mistakes. It's different from 急ぐ (to hurry), which is neutral.