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overanxiousness

Definitions

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  • noun Quality of being overanxious.

Etymologies

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overanxious +‎ -ness.

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Examples

  • I think the media will get over this overanxiousness and give him some space.

    Report: Obama To Ask Voters For Patience At News Conference 2009

  • The Peaceforcer cursed her overanxiousness and took aim at the source of her embarrassment.

    For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • The Peaceforcer cursed her overanxiousness and took aim at the source of her embarrassment.

    For Love Of Mother Not Foster, Alan Dean 1983

  • The Peaceforcer cursed her overanxiousness and took aim at the source of her embarrassment.

    For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • They laugh, they join in the general sport, their gait is light, their clothes may be gay, but at the back of their eyes, the sympathetic can see the previous night's vigil; and it is the haunting fear of experiencing it again that gives their voices, their words, their very laughter that ring of overanxiousness, that stamp of heavily overtaxed bravery.

    Too Old for Dolls A Novel 1926

  • For natural spontaneity is quickly felt and appreciated by a group of fellow-beings, as is also the element of vexation and overanxiousness, which Cleopatra was beginning to reveal despite all her efforts at concealment.

    Too Old for Dolls A Novel 1926

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