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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'anxiety' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions anxiety noun (anxieties) Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness. 2005, w:Plato, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination, 268a. : But the other, because he's been immersed in arguments, gives the appearance of harbouring considerable and suspicion that he's ignorant of those matters he presents himself to others as an expert on. (Medical) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium. --Dunglison. Translations:  German: Besorgnis Italian: ansia (trans-mid) Spanish: zozobra Etymology: From anxietatem (nomitaive: anxietas), from anxius: compare with French anxiété. See Anxious.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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