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anxiety (iou)



anxiety noun. E16.
[French anxiete or Latin anxietas, formed as ANXIOUS: see -TY1.]
The quality or state of being anxious; uneasiness, concern; a cause of this. E16.
Nature Finance has been a constant anxiety.
Medicine. A condition of distress accompanied by precordial tightness or discomfort. M17-M19.
Earnest or solicitous desire for a thing, to do something. M18.
Psychiatry. A morbid state of excessive or unrealistic uneasiness or dread. L19.
Freq. attrib., as anxiety complex, anxiety neurosis, anxiety state.