anxiety

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Ma's letter had nearly broken her heart, and her anxiety was absolutely pitiable until the actual start had been made.

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  1. noun A state of uneasiness and apprehension, as about future uncertainties.
  2. noun A cause of anxiety: For some people, air travel is a real anxiety.
  3. noun Psychiatry A state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation, often impairing physical and psychological functioning.
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  • Some of this anxiety is about the product, some is about you as a retailer. —  Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog
  • What can relieve a little of the anxiety is a good plan B. —  chron.com Chronicle
  • What can relieve a little of the anxiety is a good Plan B. —  chron.com Chronicle
  • Maybe the anxiety was my body's way of telling me to take a step back.
  • Galindo's solution to the anxiety is art-the act of subversive creation: "We, in the meantime, don't conform to but survive, act, resist, and create." —  WORLD Magazine | Community
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  1. Latin ānxietās, from ānxius, anxious; see anxious.

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  1. from French anxiēté (Cotgrave), from Latin anxieta(t-)s, from anxius, anxious: see anxious.
 

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