资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Eariness \Ear"i*ness\, n. [Scotch ery or eiry affected with
   fear.]
   Fear or timidity, especially of something supernatural.
   [Written also {eiryness}.]

         The sense of eariness, as twilight came on. --De
                                                  Quincey.