anxiety
ang zahy uh tee
- n (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
- n a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
- There are as many ways to relieve anxiety as there are things that make us anxious.
- To Rank, anxiety was the apprehension involved in these separations.
- This last group's anxiety isn't part of the normal range of variation, she stresses: "Internally, they are suffering.