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anxiety

anx·i·e·ty [ ang z ətee ] (plural anx·i·e·ties)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. feeling of worry: nervousness or agitation, often about something that is going to happen

2. something that worries somebody: a subject or concern that causes worry

3. strong wish to do something: the strong wish to do something, especially if the wish is unnecessarily or unhealthily strong
his anxiety to please

4. psychiatry extreme apprehension: a medical condition marked by intense apprehension or fear of real or imagined danger

[Early 16th century. < French anxiété< Latin anxius (see anxious)]

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See worry.

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