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Anxiousness

noun

(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic. Synonym: anxiety.

A feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments. Synonym: disquiet.

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"Anxiousness" Quotes from Famous Books

... dark-haired, brown-eyed contrast to the others, who demanded love and got it, giving it in return when she chose, and that was not always to those who asked most loudly for it. Fearless, outspoken, and quick, Poppy had none of Penelope's dreaminess, or Esther's anxiousness, or Angela's timidity. She was eminently a practical little person, with deep thoughts and plans of her own, and a will ...

— The Carroll Girls • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... In sickness and in sorrow, how the breast Will garner its affections in their home! Like stricken bird that cowers within its nest, And feels no more an anxiousness to roam; While a thick darkness, like a cloud, comes o'er The gallant spirit;—it can rise no more To wing its way, as if it sought the sky, But falls to earth, forlorn, as though ...

— The Emigrant - or Reflections While Descending the Ohio • Frederick William Thomas

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