Word Finder - anxiety

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An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.

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An uneasy or distressing desire (for something).

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A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.

There was anxiety in her quiet voice.

A feeling other than anxiety washed over her.

With every mile they traveled closer to the ranch, her anxiety increased.

Maybe I've learned to hide my anxiety better.

And yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy.

Though he did not speak, Princess Mary saw and knew how unpleasant every sign of anxiety on his account was to him.

Joy deserted my heart, and for a long, long time I lived in doubt, anxiety and fear.

While attending to him she bore the anxiety about her husband more easily.

His anger with his wife and anxiety that his name should not be smirched now seemed not merely trivial but even amusing.

But amid these cares her anxiety about Pierre was evident.

He did not mention this to his daughter, but Natasha noticed her father's nervousness and anxiety and felt mortified by it.

In his anxiety he broke his promise, and Eurydice vanished again from his sight.

She didn't look convinced.  Kris moved away her, his anxiety and concern growing.  They'd come there to rescue one human and might just lose two.  He paced and gazed up the tree, unable to see Kiki.  He heard Hannah stir and glanced towards her.  She rose from her seat.

He watched with anxiety every opportunity of once more freeing his country from Austria.

During Charles's last illness in 1685 she showed great anxiety for his reconciliation with the Romish Church, and it was probably effected largely through her influence.

Anxiety makes it much harder for a person to articulate their thoughts.

In their anxiety to remain in office Depretis and the finance minister, Magliani, never hesitated to mortgage the financial future of their country.

The king knew that Matthew was writing a history, and showed some anxiety that it should be as exact as possible.

He came along early, crossing my bean-field, though without anxiety or haste to get to his work, such as Yankees exhibit.

When the scent is inhaled, it is believed to decrease anxiety and promote relaxation.

He had risen to fear, heartache, anxiety, bliss, pain and a hundred other feelings that made you beg to be able to bury your head beneath the covers and stay in the warm cocoon of sleep forever.

His anxiety was increased by news of sinister import respecting frequent interviews between those former rivals, Talleyrand and Fouche, in which Murat was said to be concerned.

The British Government, on the other hand, influenced to a great extent by anxiety as regards prestige in the East, could not.

His great anxiety, however, was that the British nation should not be committed to any unworthy course during the progress of that struggle.

They found no such effect for most people except those high in trait anxiety.

This can help relieve anxiety about leaving things unsaid or undone.

It sounds to me like your cat could be experiencing some separation anxiety.

Whether, if she had not displayed such extraordinary anxiety not to be exiled, Napoleon would have exiled her remains a question; but, as she began at once appealing to all sorts of persons to protect her, he seems to have thought it better that she should not be protected.

Greater understanding brings about a reduction in anxiety which of its nature leads to greater spontaneity.

Patients with panic attack disorder respond discriminatively to their own interoceptive anxiety stimuli, which are attenuated by administering tricyclic antidepressant medications.

As she was overcome with anxiety while giving a speech, the crowd heard her voice falter.

It wasn't a single event, but the confluence of multiple stresses that caused her massive anxiety.

It seemed that the anxiety threatened to overpower him any day now.

New parents often experience a flood of emotional anxiety when their child is born.

Stop infant separation anxiety by keeping yourself calm.

You experienced your old, single life when you were younger and it was not surrounded by feelings like hurt, anger, depression and anxiety.

You may enter your new single life with feelings of pain, fear, hurt, guilt, and anxiety.

The process of divorce usually takes place during times of high stress, anxiety and unstable emotions.

Anxiety and stress disrupt the spirit and create imbalance.

The study's evidence suggests that Rescue Remedy reduces high levels of situational anxiety in people.

The Ptolemies in Egypt showed equal anxiety to extend the bounds of geographical knowledge.

This increased his anxiety to temporize, which he did with signal success for more than two years, making ' The grave doubt as to the paternity of Matthew involved a doubt whether the great earl of Tyrone and his equally famous nephew Owen Roe had in fact any O'Neill blood in their veins.

In times of peace it is kept under, but during war, or whenever the bands of civil order are loosened, it becomes a cause of anxiety and a source of danger.

Being apprised by one of the nobles of the court of what had taken place, Firdousi passed the night in great anxiety; but passing in the morning by the gate that led from his own apartments into the palace, he met the sultan in his private garden, and succeeded by humble apologies in appeasing his wrath.

But, though the questions at issue between Russia and Turkey in Poland and the northern littoral of the Black Sea were thus for the time settled, the aggressive designs of Russia in the Caucasus and in Persia soon caused a renewal of anxiety at Constantinople.

For some years Natal had watched with anxiety the attitude of increasing hostility towards the British adopted by the Pretoria administration, and, with bitter remembrance of the events of 1881, gauged with accuracy the intentions of the Boers.

There was an anxiety to avoid articles of dress peculiar to other religions, especially when these were associated with religious practices; and there was a willingness to refrain from costume contrary to the customs of an unsympathetic land.

The progress of the Russo-Japanese War, however, soon relieved Germany of all anxiety as to the safety of her eastern frontiers, and produced a corresponding change in her attitude.

He took some part also in the editing of an American edition of the British Poets, but the low state of his wife's health kept him in an uneasy condition, and when her death (27th October 1853) released him from the strain of anxiety, there came with the grief a readjustment of his nature and a new intellectual activity.

He was awaiting Petya's return in a state of agitation, anxiety, and self-reproach for having let him go.