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Definition of Anxiety
Anxiety

Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

Eager desire.

A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium.

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Anxiety Quotations

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.
James E. Jones

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.
Francois Jacob

Anxiety Translations

anxiety in Italian is fastidio
anxiety in Latin is sollicitudo, metus, sollicitudo
anxiety in Norwegian is engstelse, uro

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