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f. [[Latin]] anxi-us troubled in [[mind]] (f. ang-re to choke, distress) | f. [[Latin]] anxi-us troubled in [[mind]] (f. ang-re to choke, distress) | ||
| + | *ca.1525 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_More Sir Thomas More] De Quat. Noviss. Wks. 1557, 91 There dyed he without grudge, without '''anxietie'''. | ||
==Definitions== | ==Definitions== | ||
*1. The [[quality]] or [[state]] of [[being]] anxious; uneasiness or trouble of [[mind]] about some uncertain [[event]]; solicitude, concern. | *1. The [[quality]] or [[state]] of [[being]] anxious; uneasiness or trouble of [[mind]] about some uncertain [[event]]; solicitude, concern. | ||
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Origins
f. Latin anxi-us troubled in mind (f. ang-re to choke, distress)
- ca.1525 Sir Thomas More De Quat. Noviss. Wks. 1557, 91 There dyed he without grudge, without anxietie.
Definitions
- 1. The quality or state of being anxious; uneasiness or trouble of mind about some uncertain event; solicitude, concern.
- 3. Path. ‘A condition of agitation and depression, with a sensation of tightness and distress in the præcordial region.’ Syd. Soc. Lex. 1880.
- 4. Psychiatry. A morbid state of mind characterized by unjustified or excessive anxiety, which may be generalized or attached to particular situations. Freq. attrib. and Comb., as anxiety-producing, -ridden adjs.; anxiety complex (cf. COMPLEX n. 3); anxiety hysteria, a form of anxiety neurosis; anxiety neurosis [tr. G. angstneurose (Freud 1895, in Neurolog. Zentralbl. XIV. 55)], anxiety state, names technically applied to such a condition of anxiety.
- 5. Phrase "Age of Anxiety": the title of W. H. Auden's poem applied as a catch-phrase to any period characterized by anxiety or danger.
