anxiety
Other forms: anxieties
Anxiety is the vague, uneasy feeling you get when you're dreading something. Anxiety can also be a permanent state of nervousness that some people with mental illnesses experience, a milder version of panic.
When a scary or unpleasant event is looming, like getting a family portrait taken the year you have braces, you might feel some anxiety. You might also feel anxiety about passing chemistry, especially if you’ve skipped a lot of classes. Someone who suffers from a mild or severe mental illness might feel anxiety all the time. Deep breathing, playing relaxing music, and medication have all been known to help reduce anxiety.
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a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortunetypes:insecuritythe anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecurejitteriness, jumpiness, nervousness, restivenessthe anxious feeling you have when you have the jittersangstan acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedomwilliesfeelings of uneasinesstype of:emotionany strong feeling
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(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panicsynonyms: anxiousnesstypes:castration anxiety(psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in principle apply to womenoveranxietyexcessive anxietyred scarea period of general fear of communiststype of:mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state(psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic
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