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anxiety
noun as in worry, tension
Strongest matches
angst, apprehension, concern, disquiet, doubt, dread, jitters, misery, misgiving, mistrust, nervousness, panic, restlessness, suffering, suspense, trouble, uncertainty, unease, uneasiness
Strong matches
botheration, butterflies, care, creeps, disquietude, distress, downer, drag, fidgets, flap, foreboding, fretfulness, fuss, heebie-jeebies, jumps, needles, shakes, shivers, solicitude, sweat, watchfulness, willies, worriment
Weak matches
all-overs, ants in pants, cold sweat, goose bumps, nail-biting, pins and needles
Example Sentences
Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.
Disordered eating is also linked to higher rates of depression and anxiety, both in the present and in the future.
Anger often manifests in withholders as another self-destructive but more socially acceptable feeling or behavior, like anxiety.
For my technologically illiterate mother, the idea of paying bills online provokes as much anxiety as throwing something away.
Yet, in pursuit of that ‘great revival of art,’ his anxiety, depression, and overall health began to deteriorate.
And now there was added to this devotion an element of indefinable anxiety which made its vigilance unceasing.
At last his anxiety reached a point where he was positive that if he received an adverse decision, it would surely kill him.
The fact that her fortune was vaguely threatened did not cause her anxiety: she scarcely realized it.
Murat was in no hurry to commence his reign, and his subjects showed no great anxiety to see their new ruler.
Eighteen hundred and fifty-one was a period of anxiety to the Midland and to railway companies generally.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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