anxiety

[anx·i·e·ty]

Anxiety is the vague, uneasy feeling you get when you're dreading something. Anxiety can also be a permanent state of nervousness that some people with mental illnesses experience, a milder version of panic.

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Concern or solicitude respecting some thing ovent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

Noun
a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune

Noun
a relatively permanent state of anxiety occurring in a variety of mental disorders


n.
Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

n.
Eager desire.

n.
A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium.


Anxiety

Anx*i"e*ty , n.; pl. Anxieties . [L. anxietas, fr. anxius: cf. F. anxi'82t'82. See Anxious.]67 1. Concern or solicitude respecting some thing ovent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.> Anx*i"e*ty , n.; pl. Anxieties . [L. anxietas, fr. anxius: cf. F. anxi'82t'82. See Anxious.] 1. Concern or solicitude respecting some thing ovent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness. 2. Eager desire. J. D. Forbes 3. (Med.) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium. Dunglison. Syn. -- Care; solicitude; foreboding; uneasiness; perplexity; disquietude; disquiet; trouble; apprehension; restlessness. See Care.

Concern or solicitude respecting some thing ovent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

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Usage Examples

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said. I can't even imagine being in front of the cameras all the time. I had a weird dream the other night that I was on 'Jersey Shore.'

Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

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Other Usage Examples

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

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