Anxiety
[æŋ'zaɪətɪ] or [æŋ'zaɪəti]
Definition
(noun.) a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune.
(noun.) (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Solicitude, concern, care, uneasiness, disquiet, apprehension, fear, misgiving, perplexity, worry, vexation, trouble, pain, disquietude.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Care, trouble, eagerness, disquiet, apprehension, carefulness, diffidence,solicitude, misgiving
ANT:Carelessness, ease, confidence, contentment, acquiescence, contentedness,apathy, light-heartedness, nonchalance
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A dream of this kind is occasionally a good omen, denoting, after threatening states, success and rejuvenation of mind; but if the dreamer is anxious about some momentous affair, it indicates a disastrous combination of business and social states.
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Examples
- She had not yet had any anxiety about ways and means, although her domestic life had been expensive as well as eventful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- At the thought he laid down his knife and fork again, and a flush of anxiety rose to his finely-wrinkled cheek. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I don't pretend to know what that unbearable anxiety may have been. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His face was eager and expectant--it expressed nothing but the most intense anxiety to hear her next words. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Meyler, in his anxiety to make us all speak to him, suffered Fanny to depart in peace. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- If such is the case, and Mr. Micawber forfeits no privilege by entering on these duties, my anxiety is set at rest. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In my overpowering anxiety to hear what she had to tell me, I could not answer her--I could only put questions on my side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Her heart beat with anxiety, to see how beautiful it would be. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And now, as he turned away, strolling down the hill toward the station, that anxiety remained with him as the visible justification of his own. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Such a companion for herself in the periods of anxiety and cheerlessness before her! Jane Austen. Emma.
- From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Why no,--I think--you had better--better say nothing about it, said Sophia, with ill-disguised anxiety and evident confusion. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Chokings and nervous jerkings, however, are nothing new to me when I think with anxiety of those I love. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You--you--are not particularly attached to it, I dare say,' said Mr. Pickwick, trembling with anxiety. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- From the close of 1915 onwards Russia was a source of deepening anxiety to her Western allies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yes, in spite of all her present anxieties, that was the look on her face. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Clennam, harassed by more anxieties than one, was among this devoted band. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And when, looking up, her eyes met his dull despairing glance, her pity for him surmounted her anger and all her other anxieties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Here, he saw his way no doubt--if accepted--to the end of all his money anxieties, present and future. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is nothing that they added to my anxieties and embittered my disappointments--the steady march of events has inexorably passed them by. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Still a mother has anxieties, and some young men would take to a bad life in consequence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mrs. Trenor's words were moreover emphasized for her hearer by anxieties which she herself could scarcely guess. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I begin to hope we are seeing the end of our anxieties already, he said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The assurance he now had, that Blandois, whatever his right name, was one of the worst of characters, greatly augmented the burden of his anxieties. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Anxieties and fears soon came back to me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- You see us here, quiet in our own home; our anxieties set at rest, our home restored to us; and knowing that, dear Trotwood, you know all. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- How dare you, she would ask herself--how dare you show your weakness and betray your imbecile anxieties? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She wiped it away quickly, saying-- Few men besides you would think it a duty to add to their anxieties in that way, Caleb. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is the lawyer's term for the restless, whirling mass of cares and anxieties, affections, hopes, and griefs, that make up the living man. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I had a great deal of work to do, and had many anxieties, but the same considerations made me keep them to myself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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