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Definition: Anxiety |
AnxietyNoun1. A relatively permanent state of anxiety occurring in a variety of mental disorders. 2. A vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "anxiety" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Anxiety \Anx*i"e*ty\, noun; plural Anxieties. [Latin anxietas, from anxius: compare to French anxi['e]t['e]. See Anxious.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | A dream of this kind is occasionally a good omen, denoting, after threatening states, success and rejuvenation of mind; but if the dreamer is anxious about some momentous affair, it indicates a disastrous combination of business and social states. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | Persistent feeling of dread, apprehension, and impending disaster. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Anxiety is a fear that constitutes a mental blocking, e.g. high anxiety. A chronically recurring case of anxiety that has a serious affect on your life may be clinically diagnosed as an anxiety disorder. The most common are Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, phobias, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Anxiety is often treated with anti-anxiety medications such as barbiturates, benzodiazepines, or SSRIss (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors). Behavioral and cognitive - behavioral therapy are the most popular and most effective forms of psychotherapy used to treat anxiety. Exercise and other physical activities are thought to relieve stress and anxiety as well.See also: angst
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Anxiety disorder is a blanket term covering several different forms of fear, phobia and nervous condition, that come on suddenly and prevent pursuing normal daily routines including:
- general anxiety disorder
- social phobia
- specific phobias
- agoraphobia
- claustrophobia
- panic disorder
- separation anxiety disorder
- post-traumatic stress disorder
Treatment
Anxiety disorders are often debilitating chronic conditions, which can be present from an early age or begin suddenly after a triggering event. They are strongly affected by life stress, and prone to flare up at times of high stress.Pharmaceutical companies have created a number of drugs to combat these disorders. Many of these disorders can also be treated with the aid of a good counselor and behavioural therapies such as cognitive therapy.
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Synonym: AnxietySynonym: anxiousness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Care | Alertness; (activity); attention; prudence; circumspection; (caution); anxiety; forethought; precaution; (preparation); tidiness; (order), (cleanliness); accuracy; (exactness); minuteness, attention to detail. |
Desire | Longing, hankering, inkling; solicitude, anxiety; yearning, coveting; aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition; eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety; impetuosity,. |
Fear | Noun: fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence; apprehensiveness, fearfulness; Adjective: solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving; feeze; mistrust; (doubt); suspicion, qualm; hesitation; (irresolution). |
Pain | Care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal, shock, blow, cark, dole, fret, burden, load. |
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Lyrics | And caused much anxiety (Poisoning Pigeons In The Park; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Clever | The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith. The beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Performance Anxiety (1994) High Anxiety (1978) | |
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 | Rabies in humans is almost always fatal. Symptoms may be headache, fatigue, fever and pain at the site of the bite can be present. Behavioral changes like apprehension, anxiety, agitation, irritability, insomnia and depression may also appear. Credit: CDC. |  | [The anxiety of waiting] / Norman Rockwell. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Signboards along Georgia highway indicating attitude and anxiety of manufacturers and mill owners. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Seascape" by Priit Kallas Commentary: "Tranquil adjective: calm and peaceful and without noise, violence, anxiety, etc." |
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 | Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. | | Suspense; anxiety; apprehension; chiller; cliff-hanger; expectancy; expectation; grabber; hesitancy; hesitation; impatience; indecision; indecisiveness; insecurity; irresolution; page-turner; perplexity; potboiler; tension; thriller; uncertainty; tense; i. |
| Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. | | Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. |
| Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. | | Terror; alarm; anxiety; consternation; dismay; dread; fearfulness; fright; horror; intimidation; panic; shock; trepidation; trepid; fear; afraid. |
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Aesop | A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. |
Charles Haddon Spurgeon | Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. |
Confucius | The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety. |
Geikie | An undivided heart which worships God alone, and trusts him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants. |
Horace Bushnell | Anxiety is a word of unbelief or unreasoning dread. We have no right to allow it. Full faith in God puts it to rest. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Stupidity is without anxiety. |
John Burroughs | I was born with chronic anxiety about the weather. |
Plato | Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. |
Soren Kierkegaard | Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. |
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Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | In front of the iron curtain which lies across Europe are other causes for anxiety. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | There is an anxiety, a curiosity in what one feels for Emma |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | Startled as she was, Alice was more frightened for him than for herself at the moment, and watched him with some anxiety as he mounted again |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He went forward, with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing nothing, plunged into chance, that is to say, swallowed up in Providence |
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Health | Irritability, anxiety and depression are common. (references) | |
This high referral rate may cause undue parental anxiety. (references) | ||
The anxiety of being unable to fall asleep can actually contribute to insomnia. (references) | ||
Business | Chinese anxiety about Soviet strategic advances was heightened following the Soviet Union's December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. (references) | |
Companies that can ease the anxiety of industrial estates over high operating costs for their non-hazardous waste incinerators could find an eager market. (references) | ||
Children | Hong Kong | A child witness information kit in Chinese, with books explaining legal and court proceedings, also has been published to help reduce children's anxiety about testifying. (references) |
Afghanistan | According to the study, some 90 percent have nightmares and suffer from acute anxiety, while 70 percent have seen acts of violence, including the killing of parents or relatives. (references) | |
Economic History | Ukraine | A lengthy period of political uncertainty distracted the government and parliament away from the real work of reform in late 2000 and early 2001. Despite the level of anxiety among business circles and foreign investors, however, economic growth continued throughout the crisis (although its pace has increased as the political situation has calmed). (references) |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | An anxiety has been also demonstrated by the Executive for peace with the Creeks and the Cherokees. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The original adjustment of our claims and the anxiety displayed to fulfill at once the stipulations made for the payment of them are highly honorable to the Government of the Two Sicilies. |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | Nothing can relieve me from anxiety lest by any act of mine their interests may suffer, and nothing is needed to strengthen my resolution to engage every faculty and effort in the promotion of their welfare. |
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| "Anxiety" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.92% of the time. "Anxiety" is used about 2,565 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.92% | 2,563 | 3,553 |
| Noun (common) | 0.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,565 | N/A |
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Expressions using "anxiety": Anxiety and Panic Attacks ♦ anxiety attack ♦ Anxiety Disorder ♦ Anxiety Disorders ♦ anxiety hysteria ♦ anxiety neurosis ♦ anxiety reaction ♦ castration anxiety ♦ cause anxiety ♦ Dental Anxiety ♦ Generalized Anxiety Disorder ♦ Manifest Anxiety Scale ♦ over anxiety ♦ tense anxiety ♦ Test Anxiety Scale. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "anxiety": anxiety-dream, anxiety-free, anxiety-induced, anxiety-making, anxiety-management, anxiety-provoking, anxiety-reduction, anxiety-related, anxiety-ridden. | |
Ending with "anxiety": over-anxiety. | |
Containing "anxiety": Anti-Anxiety Agents, guilt-anxiety-fear-anger. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "anxiety"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | benoudheid, bedugtheid (fear). (various references) | |
Albanian | ankth (anguish, Ardor, ardour, dismay, distress, fuss, incubus, inquietude, jitters, nervosity, night-hag, nightmare, obsession, overanxiety, trepidation, uneasiness, unrest), siklet (discomfort, embarrassment, lather, torment), shqetësim (affliction, agitation, bother, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, distress, disturbance, fash, fear, feeling, fidget, flurry, fret, Fry, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, moil, perturbation, plague, preoccupation, qualm, restlessness, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, vexation, worry), merak (care, carefulness, concern, disturbance, pains, preoccupation, stew, unrest, worry), etje (avidity, cupidity, desire, drought, eagerness, hankering, hunger, thirst, voracity). (various references) | |
Arabic | قلق (agitated, anxious, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, bother, concern, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fearful, fidget, fidgety, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, inquietude, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, upset, worried, worry), تلهف شديد, جزع (craze, despondency, despondent, grain, impatient, solicitous, vein), الحصر النفسي, شجن (blues, sorrow). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | силно желание (ambition, appetence, appetency, avarice, impatience, itch, lust, oestrum, oestrus, yearning), тревога (agitation, alarm, alert, dismay, disquiet, disturbance, flurry, fluster, inquietude, perturbation, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worriment, worry), безпокойство (alarm, bother, care, concernment, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fash, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, malaise, plague, qualm, ruffle, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, upset, whim-wham, worriment, worrit, worry), подтиснатост (dejection, depression, inhibition, jim-jams, low spirits, the blues, the dumps). (various references) | |
Chinese | 焦急 (anxious), 慮 , 懮慮 (concern), 擔懮 (worry), 悒 (worry), 忧虑 (Anxieties, Apprehension, fraught, Worry). (various references) | |
Czech | stres (stress), starost (care, charge, concern, fash, lookout), neklid (alarm, discomfort, disquiet, ferment, inquietude, jactation, jactitation, malaise, uneasiness, unrest, worry), úzkost (alarm, anguish, apprehension, care, distress, heartache, worry). (various references) | |
Danish | anxietas, angst (agony, anguish, fear, fright), angor, aengstelse, uro (agitation, balance, balance-wheel, flexural pivot), beklemmelse (depression, difficulty). (various references) | |
Dutch | angst (agony, anguish, fear, fright). (various references) | |
Esperanto | anksieco. (various references) | |
Farsi | نگرانی (Pine, Solicitude, Stew, Umbrage, Worry), تشویش (Phobia), اندیشه (Idea, Mentality, Notion, Opinion, Plan, Reflection, Solicitude, Thought, Worry), اضطراب (Anguish, Commotion, Feeze, Unrest, Worry), ارنگ , اشتیاق (Appetite, Avidity, Enthusiasm, Heat, Hunger, Solicitude, Thirst), دل واپسی . (various references) | |
Finnish | ahdistus (agony, difficulty in breathing, oppression, torment, vexation), levottomuus (disturbance, restlessness, uneasiness), huoli (care, carefulness, worry), huolestuneisuus, hätäily (fussing, hurrying), hätä (danger, distress, hurry, trouble). (various references) | |
French | inquiétude, anxiété, souci, angoisse (anguish). (various references) | |
German | Angst (agony, anguish, dread, fear, fright, trepidation, worry), Unruhe (about, agitation, concern (at, disorderliness, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, ferment, fermentation, fidget, fidgetiness, fretfulness, noise, perturbation, restiveness, restlessness, ruckus, skittishness, trouble, turbulence, unease, uneasiness, unrest, worry), Besorgnis (apprehension, apprehensiveness, care, concern, solicitude, unease, uneasiness, worry), Beklemmung (depression, difficulty), ängstlichkeit (anxiousness, apprehension, nervousness, timidity, timidness, timorousness), Ängstlichkeit (anxiousness). (various references) | |
Greek | ανησυχία (apprehension, concern, concernment, dismay, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, nervousness, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worriment, worry). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חששנות (apprehinsivemess, hesitation), חשש (apprehension, fear, misgiving), חרדה (alarm, dread, horror, luridness, trepidation), דחילה (awe, fear), דאגתנות (anxiousness, disquiet, worry), דאגה (care, concern, fear, solicitude, worry), דאבה (anguish, distress, grief, sadness, sorrow), סרהוב (pressing, urging). (various references) | |
Hungarian | aggodalom (alarm, anguish, care, concern, disquietude, flutter, misgiving, misgivings, worry), aggódás (apprehension, disquiet, distress, fear), aggály (qualm, query, scruple, solicitousness, solicitude), szorongás (discomfort, distress, flutter, phobia, press). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kewaswasan (uneasiness), keresahan (restlessness, uneasiness, unrest), kekhawatiran, kecemasan (worry). (various references) | |
Irish | imní. (various references) | |
Italian | ansietà (care, concern, suspense), ansia (disquiet, uneasiness, yearning), angoscia (agony, anguish, distress, fear, fright, heartache). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 懸念 (concern, fear, worry), 憂慮 (concern, fear). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふあんしん (apprehension, fear, insecurity, restlessness, suspense, uncertainty, uneasiness), ものあんじ (worry), ものおもい (meditation, pensiveness, reverie, thought), ゆうぐ (fear), ゆうりょ (concern, fear), こころづかい (regard for, solicitude), こうこ (excellent, finance corporation, fine, for ever, from ancient times, historic, looking back, love of antiquities, pertinent, the public, the world, unprecedented, worry), けねん (concern, fear, worry), ふあん (insecurity, suspense, uneasiness), おそれ (concern, fear, horror, uneasiness), しんろう (bridegroom, fear, hardships, toil, trouble, worry), しんぱい (care, concern, worry), しょうしん (burning oneself, cowardly, grief, heart failure, heartbreak, humble position, impatience, promotion, rising in rank, self-immolation, timid), くしん (diligence, hard work, pain, trouble), きぐろう (care, worry), きがかり (concern, worry), こうこのうれい. (various references) | |
Korean | 불안 (Anxieties, unrest). (various references) | |
Manx | sou-aigney (dejection, despond, mirthlessness, sorrow), imnea (care, concern, disquiet, nervousness, unease, worry), anaash (uneasiness). (various references) | |
Norwegian | uro (disturbance), engstelse. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anxietyay.(various references) | |
Polish | niepokój. (various references) | |
Portuguese | ansiedade (care, concern, concernment, eagerness, inquietude, solicitude, stew, suspense, tension, trepidation, worry). (various references) | |
Romanian | anxietate (nervousness), zbucium (agitation, coil, fidget, struggle, struggling, trouble, uneasiness, worriment), teamã (alarm, apprehension, awe, dread, fear, fright, nervousness, palpitation, panic, pusillanimity, terror), nerãbdare (eagerness, hastiness, impatience, petulance), nelinişte (agitation, apprehension, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, ferment, flurry, fret, inquietude, perturbation, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worry), grijã (alarm, attention, care, carefulness, charge, chariness, conscientiousness, custody, deliberation, foresight, harassment, mindfulness, neatness, observance, painstaking, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, solicitude, thought, trouble, worriment, worry), gând (anticipation, brains, conceit, conviction, idea, imagination, intent, recollection, scheme, thinking, thought, wish), fricã (anguish, apprehension, fear, fright, funk, palpitation, pusillanimity, scare, yellow), frãmântare (agitation, discomposure, fermentation, fluster, flutter, fret, fretfulness, kneading, torture, trepidation, unrest, worry), dorinţã fierbinte, îngrijorare (alarm, concern, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, fear, inquietude, restlessness, thought, uneasiness, worry), îngândurare (musing). (various references) | |
Russian | беспокойство (ado, Angst, bother, botheration, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fash, fidget, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, restlessness, taking, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, uneasyness, unrest, worry). (various references) | |
Scottish | trioblaid (tribulation, trouble, vexation), iomagain (solicitude), imcheist (distraction, doubt, perplexity), deatam (eagerness, solicitude), dearmail, cùram (care, charge). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | anksioznost, strepnja (pang, trepidation, worry), nervoza (nervousness). (various references) | |
Spanish | ansiedad (alarm, angst, avidity, eagerness, solicitude). (various references) | |
Swedish | oro (agitation, alarm, botheration, concern, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, flutter, harassment, inquietude, jimjams, nervousness, perturbation, qualm, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, unease, uneasiness, unrest, worriment, worry), bekymmer (care, concern, concernment, trouble, worry), ängslan (fear, nervousness, pain, unease, uneasiness). (various references) | |
Thai | สิ่งที่ทำให้กังวล, ความวิตกกังวล (suspense, sweat). (various references) | |
Turkish | vesvese (delusion, solicitude, specter, spectre), sıkıntı (adversity, agitation, annoyance, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, difficulty, dire straits, discomfort, distress, doldrums, draft, embarrassment, famine, fear, fret, gloom, gloominess, grayness, greyness, groan, hardship, heebie-jeebies, inconvenience, incubus, infliction, load, megrims, mopes, nuisance, oppression, pill, pip, pressure, rigor, rigour, rock, scrape, Strait, straits, stringency, tedium, the megrims, toil, toils, tribulation, trouble, vexation, weight, willies), merak (avocation, bug, care, concern, crotchet, curiosity, disquiet, disquietude, fad, fancy, hobby, interest, sensation, whim, wonderment, worry), kaygı (apprehension, care, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, fear, fears, inquietude, perturbation, preoccupation, solicitude, worry), heves (alacrity, ambition, Ardor, ardour, brio, cult, desire, eagerness, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fit, freak, furor, furore, grace, inclination, itch, keenness, maggot, nine days' wonder, notion, relish, stomach, studiousness, whim, whimsey, whimsy, zeal), endişe (agitation, angst, apprehension, care, concern, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, doubt, fear, fears, fret, inquietude, perturbation, preoccupation, qualm, scruple, solicitude, stew, suspense, uneasiness, worry), can atma (alacrity, aspiration, eagerness, itch, longing, readiness), bunaltı (heebie-jeebies, mugginess). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ьnji (trouble, unrest), howatyr (apprehension, fear). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | страх (alarm, apprehension, boggle, dread, fear, fray, fright, horror), турбота (bother, care, charge, concern, inconvenience, preoccupation, solicitude, suspense, trouble, work, worry), тривога (alarm, alert, care, disquiet, tizzy, trepidation, worry), неспокій (bother, botheration, disquiet, fidget, inquietude, trouble, unquote, unrest, worry), завзяття (ardency, fervency, zest), прагнення (affectation, ambition, appetency, appetition, aspiration, aspiring, craving, desire, gravitation, hanker, hunger, libido, need, nisus, objective). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự lo lắng lòng ước ao, sự khắc khoải, mối lo âu (solicitude), mối lo, mối băn khoăn, lòng khao khát (craving). (various references) | |
Welsh | pryder (solicitude), boloch (destruction, pain). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cura, curabant, curabantur, curabat, curabimini, curabit, curabo, curabunt, curamini, curandi, curandum, curans, curantes, curare, curarem, curarentur, curaret, curaretur, curari, curas, curasset, curata, curatae, curate, curatus, curaverunt, curavimus, curavit, curem, cures, medos, metitus, metu, metum, metus, nobe, nube, nubem, nubes, nubibus, nubicula, nubis, nubium, nubs, scrupulus, sollicitudine, sollicitudinem, sollicitudinibus, sollicitudo. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | instance. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "anxiety": antianxiety, overanxiety. (additional references) | |
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"Anxiety" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anexiety, anexity, angsiety, aniexty, anixety, anxciety, anxietty, anxity, axiety, axity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "anxiety" (pronounced angzī"utē) |
| 4 | -ī" u t ē | impropriety, notoriety, piety, propriety, sobriety, society, variety. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-t-x-y" | |
-2 letters: axite, entia, tenia, tinea, xenia, yenta. | |
-3 letters: ante, anti, ayin, etna, exit, neat, next, nite, nixe, nixy, tain, taxi, tine, tiny, tyin, tyne, yean, yeti. | |
-4 letters: ain, ait, ane, ani, ant, any, ate, axe, aye, eat, eta, nae, nay, net, nit, nix, tae, tan, tax, tea, ten, tie, tin, tye, yea, yen, yet. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-t-x-y" | |
+2 letters: inexactly. | |
+3 letters: exactingly. | |
+4 letters: antianxiety, expansivity, externality, hematoxylin, overanxiety, oxygenating, oxygenation, phytoalexin. | |
+5 letters: exorbitantly, extortionary, hematoxylins, hypoxanthine, inextricably, oxygenations, pansexuality, phytoalexins, unisexuality. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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